I haven't done the Friday Five in a long time, but it's not too bad this week...

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails? My main E-mail and work E-mail = nothing. My Dani E-mail has info about the game, and I have a sneaking suspicion that my Forgotten E-mail does too... which I should fix... or just make a different ST account... :)

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be? Hmm... I think I might have had one, but I can't remember if they actually printed mine or not. Some people got theirs printed, and some people (like the ones with lots of activities) didn't... since I fell into the latter category, I probably didn't. I have this odd suspicion, however, that if I did choose one at that time, it was probably "Last but not least, I wanna say peace and we outta here" which is a quote from (I think) an NKOTB song... how embarrassing... :)

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say? I would love to be able to do Scary White Girl, but I can't get that down to 6 letters and still have it be intelligible. DED GRL # would also be an acceptable choice... :) But as it is, Gabe has the Vamp Mobile, with BLDSKR... which, for those unknowing, is Bloodsucker, not Bald Sacker, Bald Skater, or anything else crazy like that... :)

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say? I probably have, somewhere along the line, but it's not ringing any bells right now. Actually, I think I may have a silver napkin ring from a play that I was in, with the information about the play (title and run dates) engraved on it... but I'm not positive it was engraved...

5. What would you like your epitaph to be? No really good ideas for this one... I'd probably go with a song lyric, but that's not necessarily a good idea... I would change my mind about a million times before it was necessary to have an epitaph, and then it would eventually be outdated... *shrug*...

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In other news, my left shoulder hurts. It's almost to the point where it radiates far enough down my back to make sitting painful... we'll see how this goes... I don't want to be in pain at game tonight... *grumble*...

In other other news, the place we looked at last night rocks... if I could only find someone to sublease from us for the summer, we could almost definitely snag it... as it is, there's a chance she will find someone willing to take it before May (the earliest we can feasibly move, if we have to pay rent on both places concurrently), and then we can't have it... *pout*...

And in the final news (for now), "Gehenna" is out... blah. I'm not thrilled with it, though it is pretty and shiny and has nice cover art... Gabe already found the requisite typo... I'm sure there are plenty more where that one came from... *grumble*...

Friday Five on Halloween! w00t! :)

1. What was your first Halloween costume? The first one I vaguely remember, or the first one that my parents have pictures of, I was a Gypsy... I'm guessing it was either when I was 1 1/2 or 2 1/2... I was capable of walking, at least... :)

2. What was your best costume and why? Hmmm... this is a hard one to pick... I think the one that I remember most distinctly, though, was when Dana and I dressed up like the California Raisins... we basically wore black trash bags with tights, and little bow tie/shirt fronts that my mom made... and sunglasses of course...

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn't give you a treat? Nope... probably due to adult supervision whenever we went trick or treating... that, and we only went to houses with their lights on, so we were guaranteed treats... :)

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.) Not really, unless you consider me going "when can I start putting up Halloween stuff?" a tradition... that starts in August... :)

5. Share your favorite scary story...real or legend! I know too many scary stories... especially after all the tours I took in New Orleans...

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Ummm... Happy Halloween and stuff! :) No costume for me this year, just dressed up gothy... it's easier to do... :)

Well, I haven't done the Friday Five in ages... this one's easy, so here we go... :)

1. Name five things in your refrigerator. Milk, butter, cheese, soda, and juice... there's a whole lot more than that, but those were the easy things to remember... :)

2. Name five things in your freezer. Waffles, Toaster Strudels, ground beef, chicken, and Hot Pockets... less up there, but still a lot of crap... :)

3. Name five things under your kitchen sink. Lysol, shoe polish, trash bags, the lid to the trash can, and the lid to the container I wash dishes in...

4. Name five things around your computer. (At home) Empty CD cases, scrap paper, Ravnos clan pin, Kiasyd clan pin, and a stack of index cards... (at work) Stabbie (she's a stuffed Halloween cat), my message taking pad, bunches of randomly scribbled notes, scanner, and scrap paper (for the bunches of scribbled notes to be put on)...

5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet. Ibuprofen, vitamins, bandaids, leftover Percocet (sp?), and some other random leftover prescription... :)

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While we're at it, let's add some "End of the Work Week Wisdom"...

"It's cold, and there are wolves after me!"
--Which is apparently from "Beauty and the Beast," and has rapidly become one of my favorite sayings... despite the fact that wolves are not indiginous to this area... a fact which Gabe continues to remind me of... :)

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But yeah, it is cold... and this is somewhat good... cuz then I can wear my wintery clothes, which I seem to have more of... :)

Haunted house tonight, I think, and then who knows what afterwards... tomorrow, I'm gonna go shopping (I have a coupon for 25% off anything I buy at Michael's, which is only good tomorrow), and then game in the evening... I already have my outfit picked out and everything... go me! :)

Whee! Friday Five!

1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most? Heh... which ones do I NOT hate, is more like it! :) But among the things that I really hate is making the bed... my theory is that if you are just gonna sleep in it again in about 16 hours, why bother making it? So I don't! :) Dishes also suck, as does trying to clean the bathtub (I say TRYING, cuz it's very hard to do with the way our shower doors are set up)...

2. Are there any that you like or don't mind doing? I don't mind cleaning the mirrors, and the bathroom sink isn't too bad... and sweeping has always been fine with me... :)

3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it's needed? Mostly just as it's needed, though much more gets done on Sunday (usually while the laundry is getting done) than any other day...

4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules? Most likely, I do, but I don't realize it... :)

5. What was the last thing you cleaned? Uhhh... ummm... oh, wait, I cleaned up the top of my sewing machine table this morning... there was a whole lot of clutter all over it... :)

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I made my Marvel character last night, and she's kinda kewl... :) When Karac let me look at the powers table, there was very little that I actually wanted... he let me take Thermal Control without rolling it, so that I could at least do something that I wanted to be able to do... that power will let me raise and lower temperatures... the guys think this is kewl, cuz then I can air condition the team, so that they can wear trenchcoats year round... :)

I also got Heat / Fire Resistance, which will let me, more or less, stand in the middle of a fire and not really be affected... :)

Then I got Plasticity and Elongation... kinda like Mr. Fantastic... I wasn't so sure about those to begin with, but one of the things that Karac mentioned that I could do with it is use it for disguise... like rearranging my features... so I was all for it then... :)

And then my final power was Telekinesis... need I say more? :) I love TK... :)

So the character's name is Pyretta Blaze (blatant ripoff on my part), and she's an Altered Human... a horrible tragic tanning bed incident was what gave her her powers... :) Yes, it's kinda cheezy, but I'm just having fun with it... :) Anyways, the story is that she was horribly burned to a crisp, but something about whatever caused the accident also gave her super powers... she would be really disfigured, except the Plasticity let her fix herself up again... :)

The only downside to all of this, though, is that some of her stats and powers are penalized when her skin is exposed to bright light... like a normally lit room will mess her up... so she has to wear a whole lot of protective clothing... which is another reason why the "air conditioning" will come in handy... :) Anyways, that was something that I decided to do to her, cuz what fun is a character with no flaws at all? :)

So I'm really looking forward to my first game on Tuesday... it should be a blast... :) Now just to work out how I'm hooking up with the team... :)

Is it really Friday? Guess so... here's the Friday Five!

1. How much time do you spend online each day? Well, this is tricky... my computer at work has a connection that's always on, so I usually pop on and offline throughout the 8.5 hours that I'm here each day... outside of work, I'm rarely online... maybe half an hour or so on the weekends, and maybe another half an hour at some point during the week in the evening.

2. What is your browser homepage set to? At work, msn.com. At home, doteasy.com.

3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? If so, which one(s)? I have accounts on AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ, and probably another couple of programs, but I'm almost never on them... AIM is the one I'm on, if I ever am...

4. Where was your first webpage located? Anneke's Haven... and it's still there... just very stripped down... :)

5. How long have you had your current website? About a year and a half, almost precisely...

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Been busy at work again... that time before the beginning of a new semester has a tendency to be hectic around here... not only do we have normal work, but also the preparation for my bosses' classes. Such fun! :)

At least we're almost ready for him to teach Monday morning... that's good! :)

Friday Five!

1. What time do you wake up on weekday mornings? 6:45 is when the alarm goes off, and I usually get up right about then... give or take a minute or two...

2. Do you sleep in on the weekends? How late? Usually till about 10, though it often goes later, if we've been out super late...

3. Aside from waking up, what is the first thing you do in the morning? Roll over to kiss Gabe, assuming he hasn't buried himself in the blankets... :)

4. How long does it take to get ready for your day? About 45 minutes, all told... but that's from the time I get up to the time I leave for work... there's usually at least 15 minutes of laying on the couch in there... :)

5. When possible, what is your favorite place to go for breakfast? Hmmm... hard to say... around here, it's probably Denny's... if I were in St. Louis, though, it would be St. Louis Bread Co... :)

Can I go back to bed now? :)

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Pictures of the new pants are now on my computer at home, but I didn't put them on a disk... I could have asked Gabe to E-mail them to me, but seeing as my E-mail is down, that wouldn't do me any good either... so they'll be here eventually...

Now I'm hoping that my headache will go away, cuz if it doesn't, I'll end up going home early... that isn't a bad thing, but the fact that all I would be able to do at home is lay around and maybe listen to music is the bad part... ugh...

Well, I guess I'll at least get some work done...

Well, when the Friday Five is about movies, I'm like morally obligated to do it... :)

1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be? I think I've settled on "Dawn's Thrilling Life"... which is a big time joke, cuz my life probably isn't thrilling to most people... :)

2. What songs would be on the soundtrack? Gah... I can't possibly figure out every song that would be... two that I would have to have, though, would be "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, and "Dawn Can't Decide" by The Lemonheads... those two songs are two of MY songs... I would also tend to add "Dawn" by Stabbing Westward, but if you've ever read the lyrics... eh, I dunno...

3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why? I would imagine live-action, but I could see it as being a cute little cartoon, too... :)

4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc? Since the time I was in high school, I've been told that if someone were to play me in a movie, it would be Winona Ryder... then again, she's getting a bit older now... if she looked how she looked when she was in Beetlejuice, that would work... dunno about who could play my family... I'm sure Gabe would be happy if Stuart Townsend played him, though... :)

5. Describe the movie preview/trailer. Uhhh... well, it probably wouldn't convince people to see the movie or anything... :)

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That was pretty silly, honestly...

Got a lot of work to do, so I suppose I better get on that...

Friday Five time! :)

1. Do you remember your first best friend? Who was it? Katie Watson is the first one I can remember, which would have been about kindergarten... :)

2. Are you still in touch with this person? Nope... she moved to Arizona when we were in grade school (maybe around 3rd grade or so), and we wrote back and forth for a little while, but then gave that up, as we were young, and writing letters was hard... :)

3. Do you have a current close friend? Yup, Gabe is my best friend! :)

4. How did you become friends with this person? Gaming, of course...

5. Is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why? I don't really know for sure... from time to time, I think it would be nice to still be in contact with some of the girls I was friends with in high school, but, at the same time, I doubt we would have much in common any more. I mean, I got to see Dana about a year and a half ago, and that was kinda kewl, but we really didn't have much to talk about, other than our jobs and such... and I guess I kinda miss hanging out with Nate, but again, I dunno how much we have in common anymore...

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In other news, wrestling blew big monkey chunks last night... in the first hour, there was only ONE match, and then they reshowed the ENTIRE final match from last week... we pretty much just ignored it, and talked the whole time it was on... I suppose at least Billy Kidman is back, and I got to see him do the Shooting Star Press again, which made me happy... :)

And tonight is "LXG"... w00t! :) Can't wait!!!!

Sure, we'll do the Friday Five this week... :)

1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short? It's naturally wavy, which is possibly the most annoying type of hair to have... particularly when it is resistant to being straight, and won't hold a curl... As for length, it's in between right now... just reaching my shoulders, or a little past...

2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime? My hair was a lot straighter when I was young (though it still wouldn't hold a curl). My mom let me grow my hair out till I was in kindergarten, and then it was short for pretty much all of grade school... the only time I had it really long since kindergarten was after high school, until I was a junior in college... it got to be about 3 feet long (from the top of my head to the ends of my hair), and then I had my friend cut about 14 inches off in one day... :)

3. How do your normally wear your hair? Now that it's getting long enough to do so again, I wear it pulled back just about every day... I used to put it in a ponytail, but now it's long enough that I can use my claw hairclip thingies... so it's either in a claw-held ponytail, or twisted up and clipped to the back of my head...

4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like? Straight, and purple... :) And probably longer, too... at least as long as Gabe's... :)

5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened? Yes, I am no longer allowed to attempt to give myself bangs... I've had two disasters with that... the first time I looked like Wesley Crusher, and the second time, I had about a third of my hair turned into bangs... the sad part is that it's usually small children who give themselves bangs and mess up their hair; for me, it was in college... :)

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Nope, no "End of the Work Week Wisdom"... sorry! :)

And not much else to say, either... the link from yesterday was because I found a lot of bands that I like listed on that site, with information about albums they had put out... seeing as most of the bands were ones I found on compilations, this is useful to me... :)

But they still don't list The Morgans / Lucyfix... and I'm still trying to track those girls down!

Friday Five time! :)

1. What drinking water do you prefer -- tap, bottle, purifier, etc.? Although many people complain about the water in C-dale, I don't mind it... so generally tap water, cuz it's the most convenient...

2. What are your favourite flavor of chips? It's a toss-up between Ruffles Sour Cream & Cheddar and Lays Salt & Vinegar. I've been craving the latter for the past few days, but the former (along with Cherry Coke) is the second-breakfast of champions... from when I was getting my master's... I would eat before going to teach at 7:30 a.m., and then when I finished my office hours (around 10 or so), I would go find Emily, and we'd eat chips and drink soda... it was second-breakfast for me, though just plain breakfast for her, most of the time... :)

3. Of all the things you can cook, what dish do you like the most? I don't do much cooking really, so I'd have to say pizza spaghetti... it's regular spaghetti (sauce and noodles), but you mix pepperoni into the sauce, and put mozzerella on the top... it's tasty! :) It's really the only thing that I make almost from scratch (as opposed to out of a box / bag / freezer), so we'll go with that... :)

4. How do you have your eggs? Scrambled, with cheese in them

5. Who was the last person who cooked you a meal? How did it turn out? Well, Gabe and I both cooked dinner last night... it was a group project. We made Chicken Caccitore (which I probably spelled very wrong), and it was tasty... but we already figured out how to make it different next time, so it will taste even better... :)

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In other news, I hurt. I've been moving files full of back correspondence all day long, and did the same yesterday afternoon... so my muscles ache... a bath is definitely in order when I get home tonight... good thing the rehearsal isn't till 5:30... :)

No End of the Work Week Wisdom, though, because I'm sore and tired... :(

Friday Five from home! :)

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not? Well, I do think I'm pretty organized... but, well, just read the rest of the questions...

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly? Yeah, I have a planner... I'm really good at using it when I'm in school, especially for keeping track of assignments... when I'm not, it just sorta sits around...

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now? HAH! Not in the slightest! Aside from stuff that would normally be found on desks (pens, computer stuff, a few books), I can currently see a bag of bells, a coupon for Godfathers, my magic 8 ball, lip gloss, and more CDs than you can shake a stick at... and that's just the surface of my multi-level desk... At work, it's more of the same...

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter? I used to be very anal about that, as far as CDs and DVDs go... it's a good thing, really, cuz it makes them easier to find... but now, with CDs in 4+ locations in my apartment, it's not as big of a priority... I'm still anal about organizing my White Wolf books though... it's all by WW number... and I can tell when something is out of place... :)

5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize? Dunno... I don't usually see organizing stuff as hard...

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And, of course...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GABE!!!!! :)

Friday Five time! :)

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? Okay, let's see here...

• First was the house I grew up in... lived there for a long time...
  
• Next (not counting the dorms) was the apartment on the square... that place was awesome... great big HUGE living room (24 feet by 30 feet... no, I'm serious... that big...)
  
• Then the apartment at Southern Hills... icky non-carpeted nonsense...
  
• Then the apartment near Denny's (that's the best way I've ever been able to describe it)...
  
• Then the house in Murphysboro...
  
• And now my apartment near campus...
  

2. Which was your favorite and why? I think the apartment on the square, when I lived in Kirksville... it was close enough to school to walk or ride my bike, it was right by a lot of kewl stuff, and it was frickin' huge! I also like my current apartment, because it's close to EVERYTHING, but it's a little dinky... I'm still trying to figure out how to make more space in there, but I think we just have too much junk! :(

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why? It is somewhat stressful, but I like it as well... just as long as I don't have to move too often, I'm usually okay with it. Every couple of years is okay, but much more than that I don't like...

4. What's more important, location or price? I've been really lucky to be able to have good locations at good prices, so I can't really say... though at the moment, I'm more inclined to go with location... when I found my current apartment, the location was SOOOO good that I didn't really care what it cost... :)

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)? Definitely a big bathroom, with a big bathtub of one sort or another... and a decent sized kitchen as well, preferably with a separate dining area... and PLENTY of closets! Other than that, I like basements, but nice ones are rare in this area... the water table is too high... so I can do without a basement if I have to...

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"When in doubt, follow your fish."
--It's probably not technically a quote, but it's in the EINTKILFS (Everything I needed to know I learned from Sandman) list...

Fish?
Quack.

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Time to work all day, then game tonight, then very little sleep before our bus trip to Nashville... w00t! :)

Starting things off with the Friday Five!

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week? Hmmm... I guess going out to lunch for my birthday...

2. What one person touched your life this week? Gabe, of course! :)

3. How have you helped someone this week? Ummmm... I helped some girl find the old DEs on microfilm... does that count?

4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week? My Garou background... that would be good...

5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place? Clean the bathroom... that will definitely help... :)

Yeah, okay, so I'm a bit irreverent... isn't that why you love me, though? :)

I don't have any End of the Work Week Wisdom this week... call it a week off, on account of my birthday... :)

I have discovered the evil world that is user created skins for "The Sims"... I got 6 new outfits and 4 or 5 new faces yesterday... I say 4 or 5 new faces because one of the outfits came with a face, but I don't really like it... so I'll probably delete it... :) Got a REALLY nice Armand face and skin though... looks a lot like Antonio Banderas... w00t! :)

Board games tonight, LARP tomorrow, Wrestlemania on Sunday... wow, I'm such a geek... hehehe... :)

Friday Five!

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be? So many choices! :) If I went with someone modern, it would probably be one of the people from my favorite bands... Jon Crosby (VAST), Peter Steele (Type O Negative), or Rogue (The Crüxshadows), most likely. Or I could go for meeting Neil Gaiman... *shrug*... If I went with someone from the past, there's still a lot of choices... so I really don't know who I'd choose!

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be? I could totally deal with living in the 19th century, as long as it were the latter half of the 19th century... :)

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be? Oooh, too many choices... St. Louis is good, sometimes... I really love Phoenix and Madison, but I dunno if I would like living there... England could be fun, but very different... as much as I'd like to say Germany, I would have to learn German really quickly, if that were to actually happen...

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be? Death from the Sandman comics. Not necessarily for the occupation, but being her would be kinda neat. :)

5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be? Winona Ryder? :)

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End of the Work Week Wisdom: (as promised)
First question: am I your trained monkey?
--Bruce Campbell, in response to a request to do the laugh from the end of Evil Dead 2

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And in other news, lots of gaming in store for the weekend, as both our games run this weekend... so tonight, dealing with my now extended pack (we went from 3 members to 5 members + 1 probationary member in the span of a few minutes) and actually being in the city that I'm the bishop of... :) Tomorrow night, the usual Forgotten madness... nothing big in the works for that yet, but you never know what I'll come up with if I'm bored tomorrow before game... FEAR the bored SWG! :)

Here's the Friday Five!

1. What was the last song you heard? Hmmm... this is hard for me to remember, because since I woke up this morning, I've had "Monument" by The Crüxshadows stuck in my head. This isn't a bad thing, it just precludes me from remembering what the last song that was played last night was... :)

2. What were the last two movies you saw? The Royal Tenenbaums (last night), and Session 9 (night before last)

3. What were the last three things you purchased? A really nice skillet with a lid, another set of cheap plastic plates (to replace the ones that are about to crack in half), and I guess my new purple backpack (for game, of course!)

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend? Dishes, grocery shopping, laundry, and... I was gonna say homework, till I remembered that I don't have classes next week! :) So... probably some cleaning...

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?My boss, two co-workers, Gabe, and Megan... at least talked to in person or on the phone... if we're counting E-mail, then the list changes substantially... :)

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"End of the Work Week Wisdom":*
Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of 18.
--Albert Einstein

I dunno, it was in my calendar! :)

* - Gabe had a much better End of the Work Week Wisdom for me, but as he came up with it on Sunday or Monday, and we forgot to write it down, it is thus lost... :(

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And, as it says above, we watched "The Royal Tenenbaums" last night... we had both seen it before, but it had been a while... this time around, we just skipped the whole scene where Richie is in the bathroom (note, I'm being really careful to not spoil it for anyone)... unfortunately, that meant that we missed another scene, which I like very much (again, no spoilers here!)... but basically, if you haven't seen this movie, you should... it's extremely funny! And even though Ben Stiller is usually the funniest part of just about any movie he's in, in this one, he's not the funniest! :)

So as for the weekend, game tonight, but no game tomorrow night. I think we're gonna try to go see "Gods & Generals" tomorrow night... which means I need to remember to sleep late tomorrow morning, so that I don't fall asleep in a 3 hour movie! :) Spring Break starts Monday, which means that Gabe is off school all next week... as for me, I only work Monday and Tuesday, and then have the rest of the week off... w00t! :)

Friday Five!

1. What is your most prized material possession? I suppose my new computer, at the moment...

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest? Oooh... tough one... I think it would be my Batman T-shirt... you know, the one that used to be black, but now is more of a grayish color? I don't even wear it anymore, cuz I'm afraid it might just fall apart if I did... :)

3. Are you a packrat? Ummm... no comment would pretty much give that one away, wouldn't it? :)

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum? As much as I would like to be able to keep my apartment a tiny bit tidier, that's a pipe dream, cuz I'm really lazy... :) I don't mind some clutter, at any rate... just as long as it's somewhat organized clutter, to aid in finding stuff... oddly, though, on the other hand, I'm sooooo anal retentive about keeping my White Wolf books organized... :)

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there? Theme? What's that? I suppose the only theme that I have is there is a lot of celestial looking stuff in the bedroom and computer room... but even that is all spread out and mixed up with other stuff... :)

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"Yes, we are rationing milk. Because there isn't any more."
--*shrug*... it's better than nothing, right?

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And in other news, only a half day of work today! w00t! :) The plan at the moment is...
1) Work till noon
2) Run home, do the dishes, and generally tidy up the apartment
3) Go get a few groceries, and run by Cindy's office if she doesn't stop by mine this morning
4) (Hopefully by about 3ish, when Gabe gets out of class) Head to the Con, and see how much of a disaster my games are gonna be... :)

Exciting, no? :)

Time for the Friday Five!

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog. I think it was something along the lines of "because everyone else is doing it"... :) I liked the idea of having a webpage that I updated daily (or close to it), without all the work that is usually associated with updating daily... :) As a side note, my page was a year old in January; my blog turns one a week from today... so w00t! :)

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not? Yeah, a good chunk of my friends in C-dale read it on occasion, some more regularly than others. Megan reads it too, even though she never calls, and only leaves me strange comments like the Setite song... :)

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog? Not in the slightest... :) Well, except I usually talk about movies that I've watched recently and such...

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year? Uhhh... I suppose it would be good to keep it going, but that's about my only goal... :)

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs. Jess, who is a fellow gamer; Promoguy, who does the Monday Mission; Wil Wheaton, formerly of Star Trek: the Next Generation and movie fame; Barry the Gnome, the tales of woe of a garden gnome seeking liberation for his brethren; and Johanna, another fellow gamer and all around interesting girl! :)

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"Fish are never really alive; they're just less dead!"
--Red Foreman, on That 70's Show

Fish?
Quack.

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In other news, I've got another major project at work... see, for as long as I've been here, there have been 3 large packages on the top shelf in my bosses's office. Just packages, wrapped up in brown paper, and just sitting there.

So I went in to his office yesterday, to ask him what my next project was, having finished the last one he gave me. And he said "The Memoirs."

Now those two little words might not mean much to the average reader of SWG.net. But to me, they meant quite a bit more. As some of you know, I work for the Ulysses S. Grant Association. And we edit things that Grant wrote. Well, the big project, the final project, is going to be to produce a professionally edited version of Grant's Memoirs, which he wrote when he was dying of throat cancer, to help support his family after he died.

And so we took down one of the three packages, and unwrapped it, and I got to work.

I have a stack of paper on my desk, easily more than 500 pages. Handwritten. That was one of the two small packages. There's another one of the same size, and a third, about half again as big, at least, waiting for me.

Can we say I just got busy again?

In important breaking news, Megan's pants kick ass... :) No really, they do... she's taken a pair of burgundy colored corduroys, and cut out two roses, one on each leg, and then replaced that area with black fabric... very very neat... too bad they're WAY too big for me to borrow... :)

Friday Five time!

1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn't have breakfast, why not? French toast sticks... yummy... :)

2. What's your favorite cereal? Golden Grahams

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change? During the week, usually only one night a week. On the weekends, usually for dinner on Friday and Saturday, and sometimes lunch on Sunday... it's mainly because it's rather convenient to just eat at the Student Center before game, and cuz I'm lazy on Sunday... probably SHOULD eat out less, but I dunno if that's gonna happen... :)

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that? Probably Taco Bell or McDonalds... maybe Subway... it all depends on the lines... or, maybe, we'll eat at home... in that case, I'm guessing manicotti...

5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why? Depends... I like going to Burger King for fast food... New Kahala for Chinese food... though there's a place in E-ville that was REALLY good for Chinese... can't remember what it was called, but it's right by their Good Will (which is an AWESOME and huge Good Will)...

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"This place is fantastic; it's like "Gone With The Wind" on mescaline. They walk imaginary pets here, Garland---on a fucking leash. And they're all heavily armed and drunk. New York is boring!"
--from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

... which we watched last night... :) That movie is sooo much fun... :)

Friday Five!

1. As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why? I was a big Wonder Woman fan, though it was probably less because I knew who she was, and more because I had way cool Wonder Woman Underoos! :) Superhero/heroine underwear ROCKS! :)

2. What was one thing you always wanted as a child but never got? A pony! No, really... I always wanted a horse, or at least to get to ride a horse. My cousins had horses that they rode, so why couldn't I, right? :)

3. What's the furthest from home you've been? Not sure if Tempe, AZ, or Virginia Beach, VA, was further from home... but I would suspect it's one or the other. Tempe, at least to me, FELT further from home, because I went there by myself, to visit my friend Jamie. Virginia Beach, on the other hand, was a family trip...

4. What's one thing you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet? I'd love to be able to actually SPEAK a foreign language passably well. I've studied French, Latin, Old English, and German, but I can't actually speak any of them worth a damn... people tell me stuff in one of those languages (usually French or German), and I get very confused... :(

5. What are your plans for the weekend? Riding up to E-ville tonight for OWBN. Saturday, probably mostly putzing around during the day, and then the C-dale OWBN game at night. Sunday, laundry, homework, and maybe actually running my TT game... but we'll see... :)

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:

Brian: "You have to be different!"
The Crowd: "Yes, we are all different!"
Small lonely voice: "I'm not!"
--from "Life of Brian"

Heheheh... :)

Lookie, lookie! It's the Friday Five!

1. Where do you currently work? The Ulysses S. Grant Association, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

2. How many other jobs have you had and where? Hmmm... let's see... I worked at McDonalds starting the summer after my senior year of high school, and for the 4 summers after that. I worked for my mom's friend as a secretary some summers. During college, I had a quasi-student work job helping a professor with grading and class stuff. After I graduated, I got a teaching assistantship for 2 and a half years while I worked on my Master's. I babysat for Southern Baptist children one summer. Then I came down here, and was a research assistant for a year, and have had my current job since then. I think that's all... :)

3. What do you like best about your job? It can be really interesting, and it's actually within the field I studied (my mom, on hearing that I wanted to be a history major, told me that I'd never find work in my field unless I taught)...

4. What do you like least about your job? Sometimes, when I don't have any interesting projects (read: projects that I actually want to do), it's pretty boring...

5. What is your dream job? I like what I'm doing now, but it would be so much better if I could stay at home, and work in my pajamas! THAT'S my dream job! :)

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End of the Work Week Wisdom:

Joyce: How can you hate it so much?
Steve: It eats my relatives!
--Rose Red

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And, in other news, I REALLY want a new computer... Gabe's new laptop ROCKS! He can talk to it, and it will (mostly) do what he tells it to do! It just has some confusion between "page down" and "paste clipboard," apparently... hehehehe... :) And the screensavers are so kewl... *sigh*... I will not break down and get a Mac just because they do pretty things... :p