My Life

Hey! LiveJournal, I remember you! So.... update!

Life is good. Dollar store job rocks. The annoying old lady was fired for being a useless bitch, the dickhead guy was fired for stealing money, the stupid teenage mother was fired for stealing money without being clever enough to hide it. Three new supervisors were hired, two of them I actually helped train a lot, so even though they're my bosses I'm higher up on the totem pole. The third used to work there before, but quit for a couple months to go someplace else, then came back when that place closed down. I'm pretty sure she's been stealing money too.

I'm pretty excited that I have become a regular at the pizza shop near work. I don't even have to order "the usual" I just walk inside, give a thumbs up, and the girl is already putting my order in the oven. Which is awesome because it means she gets to me right away even if there's a huge line. Apparently the two regulars they get are myself, and "Green Camero Guy."

Finally got a wireless card for my laptop. I'd really like to just bring it outside, or to a cafe or something and spend an entire afternoon writing. Unfortunately it can't detect the battery anymore so I need to keep it plugged in to work. I'm kind of bummed out about my writing though, because my desktop had some catastrophic failure and had to be reformatted. I lost a lot of notes, and what was probably my best short story. I have an unfinished copy backup though, so I might rewrite it sometime.

Current Mood: happy

Trying to come up with a name for a tribal shaman type... Feel free to make suggestions.


I have a job, for those who haven't heard already. I'm working at the local dollar store, and it is awesome. There is so much cheap crap there, and I love cheap crap! The manager has a bit of a temper problem, but that's okay because his temper is directly entirely at the customers, and women, which causes me no end of amusement. He thinks I'm a genius (Sure fooled him!) and he has a sense of humor, so I can toss insults at my boss all day long and he won't mind at all. The best day so far was when I worked right up to closing, it was the manager, and the other young guy who works there. As soon as we closed for the day, we cranked up the music to a decibel I've never heard inside a dollar store, and we rocked out with our mops out. Other coworkers include a cool retired guy, a trailor park matriarch, and two cute stupid girls.

Started making some boffer weapons, just a few quickies to practice. I think the axe came out rather well, except the head looks like a snork. Bashy club looks as neat as I expected, but I made it an inch or two too short. Also fixed one of my crappy swords into a not-so-crappy sword. I want to get working on that orc double axe I have planned, but my artistic talent is nil, and I'm starting to think I need some padding softer than what I have.... Still not sure how I'm going to make that shield. I have some ideas, but the part that's stumping me is how I'm going to make the handle / strap / grasping point. I want to avoid drilling and bolts if I can, so I'm going to start looking into adhesives.

Dollar store also just got a shipment of belts... I'm seriously thinking of buying thirty of them and crafting up some clumsy barbarian armor.

Current Mood: creative

Passed math.
Job hunting.
Had interview at Target, looks promising.
Should clean room.

Current Mood: calm

Sweet! Aparantly Issue 9 of City of Heroes/City of Villians just came out, so I get free account reactivation until Sunday! If you play, tell me your global handle.

Current Mood: calm

Happy National Puppy Day!

http://www.nationalpuppyday.com/

Current Mood: cheerful

Oh dear sweet heavenly god...

A friend just pointed me here http://www.eartheternal.com/

A furry MMORPG... It will come out in summer 2007, and it will be free.

I am so totally making a Bounder!

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Flogging Molly - Selfish Man

I'm back from Spring Break. Spent the week with family, nothing too exciting. My mom freaked out a tiny bit when she did my laundry for me and found a pair of rabbit ears. Not like she found a thong or anything, so not really a big deal. Speaking of ears, I'm surprised by the amount of people who still haven't heard of Furry at all. I was recently getting caught up with an old acquaintance;

Me: Yeah, I'm a fur now
Her: Fur?
Me: Yup.
Her: Like catgirls?
Me: ... Yes. Like catgirls. *dies inside a little*

I don't mind the sterotypes. Muslims have terrorism, Gays have AIDS, Blacks have gang violence, Mexicans have theft, Itallians have the mafia, Chinese can't drive, Blondes can't spell "tomato" etc. Now compared to the sterotype of fucking anything that moves, I'd say furs have it pretty good. I don't even mind the misconception that that it has something to do with beastiality, because in all fairness furs do know more about animal genetalia than anyone without a zoology degree reasonably should. I like to think there are some people who know what being a fur is really about, but I'm not gonna take the time to explain it.

Also I would like to announce that I am starting a new fad in the fur community. From now on, the term "yiff" will be used in a fashion modeled after The Smurfs. Therefore a fur might say "Did you see that yiff? Man was it yiffy. Now let's go get Pappa Yiff and grab some yiffberries." And all furs within hearing radius must pretend they understand what it means.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Timon and Pumba - Hakuna Matata

I just have to mention this first. Today in English just before class started, one of the girls said something very quotable. "Scew virtue, I want cock!"

I took a quick trip to the mall to pick up a book I need for English. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. It's supposed to be extremly good. I also found the fourth book in the most awesome series ever. The newest book is called "Wolf Hunting" by... uhm.. someone. I'll look at it later. Seriously though, greatest series ever. It makes me wet in the pants.

I also stopped by the dollar store in the mall, which is freakin' awesome. I got a bunch of props and trinkets for my new Nosferatu costume. I've been tearing stuff up and poking metal bits in odd places for the last hour or so, it's almost done. I can't wait for LARP Saturday.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Boomtang Boys - Squeeze Toy

In 2003 I said I would have a novel finished in five years.

Current Mood: contemplative

Spay and neuter your pets.

Current Mood: calm

I've been having a pretty crumby week. I'm just getting over a bad cold which had been making it hard for me to walk and breath at the same time. Had to skip my Anthroplogy discussion session this week because of it, and I missed last week because of a scheduling fiasco, plus there was no discussion at all the first week, which means I'm three weeks into the semester and still have not attended that class. Except lectures of course, which leave me confused since I'm behind on the reading anyway and I'm not particularly interested in DNA and protien strings. I barely slept at all Monday, which I will also blame on being sick, which resulted in me taking a nap around 4pm yesterday that inadvertantly lasted until 5am this morning. And I had intended to spend the entire evening studying for my math test tomorrow. (Math being the thing I persistantly fail at.) So I'm going to spend a lot of today studying, and get up early tomorrow, luckily Thursdays are light and my first class is math at noon. In my English class we're required to write a reading response for the reading due that day. I've done it for every single class except today's. She collects them "periodicly" which means today was both the first time I skipped it (also due to the excessive nap) and the first time she collected it for a grade. Sonofabitch.


But it's all better now.

Current Mood: cheerful

Double XP weekend on CoH/CoV just started! Yay! And they're offering a free fourteen day trial now... I wonder if they might be trying to get more players again...

http://files.filefront.com/6552414 For the trial!

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Dr. Reanimator - Move Your Dead Bones

Back on camps now. Came back to month old dirty dishes, half the heaters not working, and fungus growing on the extra toilet paper rolls. The heat is working now, but I think the dishes are just getting dirtier. Water main on my street broke Friday, then they fixed it and it broke again Saturday.

Biological Anthropolohy = sucks
Geology = sucks
Advanced Statistics = sucks/gonna fail
Literature of Revolution = Awesome! The professor is practically a Brujah.
Advanced Fiction Workshop = Also awesome. One week in and I already incited a classmate into ninja warfare.

Current Mood: awake

Your results:
You are Catwoman

Catwoman 99% Apocalypse 90% Mystique 84% Magneto 77% Venom 76% Dr. Doom 70% Poison Ivy 70% Dark Phoenix 66% Lex Luthor 60% Juggernaut 52% Two-Face 52% The Joker 50% Kingpin 45% Mr. Freeze 42% Green Goblin 36% Riddler 28%

With a troubled past and an upbringing on the streets you have learned how to fend for yourself through crime.

Catwoman 70% Robin 70% Wonder Woman 62% The Flash 60% Supergirl 57% Spider-Man 55% Hulk 55% Green Lantern 45% Batman 35% Superman 30% Iron Man 15%

You have had a tough childhood, you know how to be a thief and exploit others but you stand up for society's cast-offs.

Current Music: Everclear - I Will Buy You a New Life

I freakin' passed!

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Garbage - Super Vixen

So I mentioned this to a few people. I've been playing NeverWinter Nights 2, and at one point in the game you come face to face with a bard and you're allowed to challange him to a lute contest. I thought it was boring and didn't want the lute, so I didn't even try, purposely lost all three rounds. So the dialogue box opens "If I don't do something quick, I'm going to lose!" You get a couple options I didn't bother to remember and then at the very end is the option "Set him on fire and steal his lute." Naturally, I set him on fire and stole his lute.


But the story doesn't end there! The bard seemed somewhat familiar to me, but I didn't think much of it right away. I now discovered that the NPC in the game was in fact a PC I knew from from the persistant world server I spent all my NWN1 time on! It had been so long I completly forgot I knew one of the guys who was going to be working on NWN2. There were a couple other references to the old server put in, but nothing so entertaining as a bard on fire.

Current Mood: amused

As of today, my last final is over! Yay! Think I'm gonna do much better in Geology than I thought... Math I'm still hoping I just barely passed... History and English I know I just barely passed.


Sold my books today too. Yeah, the things I spent $600 on a couple months ago. Got thirty-five bucks. Woohoo. Maybe if I only ask Santa for cash this Christmas, I can use it to buy other people gifts! .... yeah right, I've been a naughty boy all year, Santa ain't giving me squat.

Still.... Can't be sad. It's Christmas time!

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Christmas Carols

"Copyright Violation Quarantine
Your computer is quarantined because of copyright violations.

Syracuse University's Infomation Technology and Services has received a report that your computer has been distributing copyright-protected material. As a result, your computer has been temporarily restricted from the Internet and the SU network."





Go ahead. Laugh.

Current Mood: dorky

Grr. Why does October have to be so busy? So much I want to do, but I am severely lacking in both time and money. There's some people I'd really like to meet/see again at FurFright, but at this point I really, really doubt I'm going to make it this year. I have a math test tomorrow that I'm going to fail, but I can't fail it so I'm going to spend most of the rest of the day studying. Luckily I get my essay done over the weekend, I still have a couple essays to write for history, but I can put those off until November, even though that's going to make my November schedule crowded it won't be nearly as bad as October right now... I haven't had time to write anything creative since god knows when... I was planning on trying to send something in to Verbal Seduction again, but I missed the deadline. At least as a StoryTeller I can get some creative energy out at the Vampire LARP. Which reminds me I need to rewrite my character background for the Novitas LARP, which I also don't have time to do. My room is a mess again, and I need to find time to do laundry this week. I've got a geology test Friday, but the questions are being posted in advance, so once I get my math test done with I can concentrate on that. So my brain is all befuddled and spread in eight different directions right now, and I don't think I'm going to have any plans for anything at all until the last possible minute.

So yeah, missing out on seeing friends, watching my grades and future plummet down a dark hole of statistical nonsense, letting people down, and keeping my muse locked up in a tiny cage with murky water and saltless food pellets.

And yet... The world is a happy and beautiful place filled with peace and love, so I can't feel emo no matter how hard I try.

Bounce with me!

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: They Might Be Giants - Whistling in the Dark

To attend Furfright or not to attend Furfright, that is the question.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Patent Pending - Cheer up Emo Kid