Well, as some of you know I didn’t have much to do today. I did clean one of the water systems but that didn’t take very long…I mostly improved my skill level on games.msn.com.
But while I was hiding in my little room filled with humming freezers something scary was going on…the other two girl techs got fired. Sigh. And Mark, the semi-cute guy…his mom was in a very bad accident about two weeks ago and he hasn’t been here since. I mean, he was only part-time this semester while he took nursing classes, but he’s been here longer than me so there are things he knows that I don’t, like about lab maintenance and such.
So now it’s back to just me…next week or so Michelle will come back from U of I, so at least I won’t be the only tech…
And Luigi leaves this weekend to go back to Italy for three months. Weird weird. I asked him to send me a postcard so I can get some sort of mail more interesting than bills. Which actually I don’t get, as most bills are online nowadays…so I guess I should say more interesting than grocery store circulars.
So I’m a little scared about my job. I figure they can’t fire me right now anyway because Luigi likes me and then they’d have no techs, but it’s still a little worrisome. That and the fact that I’d hate to lose my job before I’d been here a year (coming up next week, btw).
Eh. NO worries. I’m going to go to Borders and then head to the ‘rents place so I can see cable programs about Troy. Then we’ll go down to my grandparents’ place for one last time…sniffle. Alas. That’s a story for another day. Keep my grandparents in your prayers, especially my grandmother…she’s short one son this year.
And I almost was going to end this on a happy note…meh. Oh, wait, here’s one…Troy opens in a week!
Goodnight.
Author: etoiline
Cinco de Mayo and 8 Days!
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I’m fairly excited. I just found out via elflady that the Troy soundtrack comes out next week, just before the movie does…guess what I’m buying? lol. You should check out her site, it’s got amazing links to all things Orlando, obviously, but quite a bit about the other people in his movies 😉 She’s getting pretty hard hit with bandwidth though so make sure you take advantage of her niceness and send her your ftp info to download stuff 😉 Enjoy!
And happy Cinco de Mayo! I have no idea if I’m going to get drunk tonight but someone out there I’m sure will for me. I might try to stop by and get some margarita mix so we can party 🙂
*giddy!*
falling css
Standardyes, yes, I know. things are wonky around here. but at least you can still read. *knock on wood* I’ll fix it…soon.
[ETA: Now it’s working again. And no more unsightly search boxes! Although I’m probably pulling lots of kbs on the background jpg ;)]
Remind me to tell off all the people who come here talking about how I was wrong about Imana Nushif. Read the rest of the journal, people! And I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again…why are you coming here for it anyway, if just to put me down? Thanks. More later. Maybe. Gotta go catch 24.
don’t you love what I do with my free time?
StandardAlex won’t like that I’m not reading the Iliad but this morning when I was waiting for bloods I made an AIM Expression. Go me. I am so creative. You can check it out here. Be warned, it is Troy themed and focuses mainly on Paris. Yay antihero.
I taped Oprah yesterday because Brad Pitt was on…yes, they showed scenes from Troy…and Eric Bana came on too…and Orli taped a bit because he’s still shooting Kingdom of Heaven over in Morocco. Sigh. Hunk o’ hot men on that show. Can’t wait for Troy! whee!
NationStates
StandardTake a look at Lyrnessa, the little nation I created 😉 Who knows how long I’ll stick with this, but it looks like fun.
Fallen Angel
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Sigh. Why is it that the wB keeps axing shows I like? After this there will be no more vamp shows on tv. Come on, people still like fantasy! (Ex: Lord of the Rings.) But for Alias I’ll be reduced to watching crime scene dramas all week. blah.
Literacy?
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Literacy Test: Highlight in bold those books you’ve read. (Although I don’t know how accurate this may be. I do realize I read a lot of drek but I’m certainly more literate than your average-woman-on-the-street. I just chose not to read classic literature 😉 )
Author – Title
— Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Agee, James – A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice but nothing else. I should, really. Does seeing the movies count?
Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
Bront�, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Bront�, Emily – Wuthering Heights Have it, haven’t read it…
Camus, Albert – The Stranger
Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop no, but I did read O, Pioneers! and lordy how I hated it.
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales my mom did, and can still remember the first few lines from when she memorized it in high school
Chekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – Inferno and the two smash sequels!
de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe Does it count if I read the abridged version when I was a kid?
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities etc I loved Oliver Twist.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
regret (crosspost)
Standard“…So one of these days I want to pull out those tap shoes, and character shoes, and be part of the actors on a stage. I won’t say I’m great actor, or dancer, or singer, but I feel like I can hold my own. And I just hope that when I’m old I won’t still have this regret…”
Troy – Orlando Bloom (Advance)
Buy posters at AllPosters.com
Read more at my livejournal. It was too good to leave there, but too long to write here…
And the Troy poster? Just for fun. A little levity to an otherwise melancholy post.
Thank you!
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Look at that. Only one week in competition and I’m moving up already! Thanks so much, guys. Be sure to click on the picture to vote for me today…or any of the various other places where you can click to vote 😉 *smooch* love!
And check out my poster store, which may or may not be actually up when you read this, but at least I’m trying, eh? Feel free to buy any of those for me 😉
Guess I should go check on that blood.
all in the name of science
StandardI’m going to complain a little here about having to trek from the Yalem building up to the 9th floor of the CSRB so I can spin something for six minutes. But it’s ok, it gives me exercise…and it’s ALL FOR THE GOOD OF SCIENCE! I have to keep reminding myself of that. Ah, the lovely grunt work that goes along with the glory…alas, that’s what the tech (read: me) is for…
and how unfortunate that it’s raining for WILD. I’m just not in the mood for getting wet however much free pizza they give out. And Live is playing…never really been that huge a fan, except for the one song that the movie The Beach used in their ads…eh.
I want posters for my room! I want the elven and Rohan banners from lotrfanclub.com and I want the ned kelly poster and I want some OB posters…I can’t believe I’ve been in the apartment for…*counts* nearly seven months and I haven’t put nearly enough posters up…I want the Troy ‘For Love’ poster… *whine* Stupid IRS. damn you for taking my money. Ah well.
I need to write more. At least those silly 4- and 6-minute spins gave me some time to think. The notebook is getting fuller…I’ll need a new one soon. The cover’s almost falling off this one.
Happy weekend! Wahoo!