HELLO CHILDREN as you can see, i have pretty much given up on updating anything but my twitter. BUT I FIND JOURNALS ARE STILL MORE USEFUL FOR SOME THINGS. such as this!

REC ME ONE SONG that you think I absolutely cannot live without this autumn. Preferred genre is indie/alternative/quirky things. A Classical is fine too. Mellow stuff, especially. I want to make a tracklist of stuff for the season~ BUT! NO HALLOWEEN MUSIC FOR THIS! AND IF ANYONE RECS ME ANYTHING FROM NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO BAN YOU i have grown super tired of it okay :<

If you need a better idea of what I listen to and/or want to make sure you're not reccing something I already have, here is my last.fm.



also man i need ideas for a halloween costume.

do your best to ignore the completely ridiculous face i'm making, and the pile of tess's shit behind me. that half of the living room is her bedroom.

Home from NH and Ohio. Injured myself falling off the farm's John Deere "Trail Gator" 4x2 going about 30-40 mph. Headache from hell when it happened, horrible neckpain, and slept 20+ hours yesterday, but otherwise seem to be fine. No nausea, amnesia, or dizziness, so I'm likely fine.

Cousin Lynnze's wedding was lovely, seeing my family equally so. Pictures may come later. But now, a meme:

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 (or more) people you like, include me. You can't, however, use the band that I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)".

Pick Your Artist
( The New Pornographers )

WOW I NEVER REMEMBER TO UPDATE ANYTHING BUT MY TWITTER ANY MORE


am back in new hampshire. have been since last wednesday night. leave for ohio on thursday morning for my cousin lynnze's wedding. leave for home from there on the third. am looking forward to being back in my city, because being away from it makes me realise just how much it is my home in ways that new hampshire has never been.


totling is down from vermont visiting until i leave for ohio, and we need to go kidnap buttsexual shortly. having a party tomorrow, though it looks like not very many people are going to make it, which bums me right the fuck out, but i'll live.


really need to get on the whole kidnapping jake thing now, so. o///

MY THREAD HERE


eta in other news i feel like i need a new rp, but cfud has ruined me for other rps and their app systems. also the only rp i know of that has a lot of players in it that i already know i like is sabra, and i hate memory loss games so much, as they go against my core reasons for wanting to play characters that appeal to me.

i might just start up a sandbox and make people i like play with me, because i am feeling out of sorts and uncomfortable with cfud lately and can't really properly articulate why, but am dying of lack of rp during the day.

SO. LONG TIME NO JOURNAL.

Life's been quite busy, between cash handler training at work and the many, many extra hours that come with that, and spending the past four days travelling. I flew from Seattle to Memphis, TN, and then drove back to Seattle with aphonetic (who is now living with me and Jeva!). Lonnnnnnnnng drive, but quite fun. Lots of gorgeous sights, and lots of shitty drivers. Took plenty of photos and some trip video diaries, because we could. It's great to be home now, because being gone for four days somehow felt a lot longer.
Also got my very first speeding ticket just after we got back into Washington. lolol oh well. it's only $93, not bad, as he ticketed me for 5 over when I was in fact going 16 over. Of course I'm pretty sure he was profiling us based on the fact that the car had TN plates, because the car in front of us was going faster than me, but had WA plates. Whatever, I don't feel like getting out to Spokane to contest the ticket, so I'll just pay it. YOU WIN THIS TIME, MISTER POLICEMAN.


Requisite cryptic part of this post: have been having a lot of Thoughts lately. Thoughts and also Feelings.

ALSO i am putting Quite A Bit Of Thought into podficcing for Merlin fandom (espec. Merlin RPF fandom, because there is not enough Bradley/Colin podfic) DARLING FRIENDS WHO ARE IN THIS FANDOM are there any shortish fics you think you might like to hear me read as a tester to get into podficcing? There's one I'm looking at that's about 8000 words, but I'd like to start a bit shorter than that and build up.

ALSO rec me Merlin/RPF podfics, if you've got any. I found podfic of Drastically Redefining Protocol today and am flailing with glee over it so much you don't even know.


I think it's quite possible I had something else to say, BUT i've forgotten.

Computer dead. Unmountable boot volume.

Am updating from an iPad in best buy. Fuck i want one of these, and that makes me feel like a tool.

Hiatus from just about everything except twitter for a couple of days while the replace my hard drive. May try to get jeva to let me use her laptop when she's asleep or at work but. Yeah. :(

Fml. At least maybe this way I'll get some more tales of the abyss played...

SO I GUESS I SHOULD UPDATE ONCE AND AWHILE HUH

Sakuracon was a delight, lots of pictures of me as Hanna were taken, as well as two amazing shots of me as Rayfell, thanks mackzazzle (sob I am such a creeper!). It was delightful to hang out with everyone in huge groups RY LOEV HUEG GROUPS. I possibly spent way too much money, as I always do, but my con stuff was all totally worth it (three vocaloids figures, a Black Rock Shooter plush keychain courtesy of Opal, a tidy pile of Kuroshitsuji doujin, two lulzy Reborn doujin, two gorgeous Kokuyou stationary print things, a couple other Kuroshitsuji... thinigies, a Mukuro figurine in a doctor costume (SUPER SAFE), BPAL, and some other stuff idk i've forgotten already). Also met Beth of BPAL fame, and while buying a bottle of Giant Squid from her, she gave me a free bottle of "Fuwu Bansaku in Ruined Temple With Black Monster on Umbrella", one of the Sakuracon exclusives, for being a dealer, which was pretty fabulous!
Speaking of being a dealer, Anime Pavilion was DELIGHTFULLY drama free! Got on quite well with the fulltimers, and hauled a bunch of people in for breakdown, which made it go super quickly. Am probably going to go be a fulltimer at Kumoricon for him because this more than made up for Anime Boston last year.
But yeah, didn't do much con stuff aside from the HiNaBN meetup, dealers room working/crawling, and the Vocaloids panel (which was actually pretty good!), but that's nothing new. I'm glad I don't really pay for cons any more, because while I still enjoy GOING... I don't really do much! So. Yes.

Despite spending way too much at Sakuracon, I think I'm going to finally be doing pretty okay with money in the near future. Next paycheck should be more than enough to make up for what I was late on for rent, plus the other apartment bills. I'm not sure about my student loans or my Capital One card, but I want to get some money set aside for making sure I'll always have enough for rent ON TIME before I start crying over those. But if I keep up this work schedule, I'll actually have like. savings. and shit. And can actually begin to think about paying back people I owe ridiculous amounts of money to (I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN YOU GUYS, I SWEAR), and then start saving up for a trip to Australia. Work's going to be super busy for the next few months, since my store is closing and opening at a new location down the block. We've actually got an all-store meeting about it coming up on Sunday (at 8am urrrrgghghrghghgh) so I'll know more of the exact details after that, but I'm pretty excited.

In internet news, I'm completely enamoured of Hanna is Not a Boy's Name, and you should be, too.
Am feeling a little burnt out on RP lately, though I still have upcoming app plans at CFUD. I keep thinking I need to drop a few people, but can't ever quite bring myself to, because there's still stuff i want to do, and i have DELIGHTFUL castmates, and... My life is so hard |D
Really though, I think I need to find a smaller game or something, because I've been doing super embarrassing private RP lately and just one-on-one stuff is thrilling me beyond words (the content of that and who I am RPing with may have a lot to do with this). I think I'm getting a little burnt out on OMGLOLHUEGGAME but maybe I'm just being grouchy again. IT HAPPENS, sometimes I feel like dropping CFUD entirely and then I realise that would be dumb because I love it with my entire blackened little soul.

I need to get back to work on music stuff soon. I should be expecting my keyboard and other large things sent from New Hampshire sometime in the next month, which means I can start playing and composing again, which thrills me. I need to make another craigslist ad because while some fab musicians contacted me, I completely failed at getting back to them, and none of them seemed to be exactly what I was looking for.


hrmmmm had other things to say but have forgotten, so. I SUPPOSE THIS POST HAS GOTTEN LONG ENOUGH ALREADY.

crescendocrescendocrescendo


AJ is delightful ♥

Need a new default icon, new lyrics for my journal title (SUGGESTIONS? espec. Queen songs), and I'm working on a profile image pooooossibly from this

Also, pimping showstoppers again!!

woo, 100 posts on dwidth. that's probably the most posts i've made anywhere outside of livejournal EVER. good for you, dreamwidth. maybe i'll do something nice for you like get a layout that doesn't suck.

cutting my hair off again, i think. figures, four days after i buy more hair ties... looking into new salons, Zero Zero looks like it might be a winner. gotta see how soon they'll get me in.

prooooobably not doing italy for sakuracon. am debating even doing Rayfell, but probably will anyway, but with a cheaper wig, even though i don't love the one i found. might do hanna though, since i found the clothing i'd need at work for stupidly cheap. even if some of the colours aren't quite right. whatever. am probably going to spend a good chunk of sakuracon just dicking around anyway, so.

have a motherfucker of a headache, possibly because i've been up since six am on four hours of sleep and haven't eaten much because my stomach is feelin' weird. Might finish off the tuna i made yesterday, dunno.

possibly getting a ton of free shit from work in the next couple of months. we're switching stores and not keeping any of the fixtures/furniture/etc from our current store. Might score myself a free kitchen table, some chairs, mirror... hoping to get a mannequin and a large shelf as well. don't ask why i feel i need a mannequin, i just do

spent a good deal of time today thinking about people i used to be friends with, and missing a few of them. wish it wouldn't be incredibly awkward for all parties involved to try to reconnect.

posted an ad on craigslist yesterday looking for a band. have decided i have a life goal now, and that goal is to become famous. or something. at the very least, i want to be doing music professionally.

speaking of music: showstoppers
am going to be recording a cover song solely for members, not to be shared outside the comm. HOPEFULLY THIS DOESN'T PUT YOU OFF WANTING TO JOIN i'm hoping it'll turn out pretty good.

and stuff.

I don't think I even have to say anything.

I need more saxophone music. "Goodnight Julia" from Cowboy Bebop just came up on iTunes and I remembered how I used to have an entire burnt CD of really sexy saxophone music when I was in high school, and how my library now has practically no really smooth jazzy (tenor) sax music.


ANYONE HAVE ANY RECS? Particularly Sax/Piano solos. this is the song I'm listening to at the moment, for reference.

WEBCAM MEME

( Tell me how pretty I am. )

Aww yeah.

Have a conversation with me in this post. Or with someone else. idk.


eta i am fairly certain i'm about to pass out. but feel free to keep commenting and i'll converse with you at a later date. ♥

SO HEY.
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY. (technically. i was born on the east coast, and it's already the 22nd there)


I'M IN KIND OF A SUCKY MOOD.




SHOW ME SOMETHING NICE?

♥ Comment to this post and I'll find an iconomicon icon that reminds me of you in some way or another.



Yeah, I'm bored |D


ALSO! SEATTLITES.
RECOMMEND PLACES I SHOULD TAKE MY MOTHER AND JANE WHILE THEY'RE VISITING. Other than like, Pike Place. Because we're doing that tomorrow after brunch at the Space Needle.