Here is a public service reminder from et dot com: if it’s snowy/icy/sleety outside, DO NOT try to drive fast. I know I complain that St. Louis drivers get no respect (I’ve never been in an accident that I caused) but seriously, folks. Do yourself a favor and slow down. Turn your headlights on (which is LAW if your wipers are on).
As my roommate says, there are three things you need to worry about when driving in wet/snow conditions. You can accelerate, stop, or turn, but only one at a time. She should know, because she’s from Ohio. Be safe out there. Hope the weather clears before it’s time to go home…
oddities
StandardGot an email from Friere Jesus today. mmm, spam.
Also cleaning out a smelly freezer. Joy.
But the over-priced Josh Groban CD that I got from Hallmark last night was worth it. Even if only for one song. Or two.
It makes me sad to realize that I haven’t written a word of T6R since January. Nothing saved to a file, anyway. There are all sorts of notes and things written on my last hard copy. So if I lose my bag, I’m SOL. But there are other things on my mind. Soon, I hope, I’ll have some time to devote to writing.
(Listening to Josh Groban’s With You)
just a sample
Standard…of the hundreds of books that I own. Perhaps one day I will figure out where to put this in the sidebar…until then, it gets an entry.
Quiz time
StandardIt’s the last hurrah on the work computer.
calenhiril, you’re now logged in!
Below you’ll find your test result. After, continue on to your
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
| Jenny Calendar
You scored 1 mystical, 1 suave and -3 evil. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The What Buffy Character Are You? Test written by catwrangler on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
calenhiril, you’re now logged in!
Below you’ll find your test result. After, continue on to your
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
| Lancelot
You scored 21 chivalry! |
| You’re on the upper end of the good range of chivalry. You’ve got a good handle on how to treat someone well, probably better than they’re used to, and generally you don’t go over the top and make them feel incompetent or idolized. Assuming your reasons are pure, you are the anti-jerk. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Chivalry Test written by HiyaCutie on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
calenhiril, you’re now logged in!
Below you’ll find your test result. After, continue on to your
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
homescreen to discover what we’re about.
| A Goat Herd
You scored 21 alien-ness, 36 mythical-ness, 48 angelic-ness, and 23 regal-ness! |
| The Goat Herd In your last life you lived in poverty, but were always proud of your own freedom. You had nothing – but the song of the birds, the wind in the trees, the crowing of a rooster ment everything to you. You were strongly tied to your friends and family and would give all your patience and time to those you loved. Another profession you might have taken was: Wandering Minstral Miner Mother/Home maker Housemaid Groom Sheep Dog/Hunting Dog/Family Pet At your best you were brave, protective and gentle At your worst you were hopeless, stupid and clumsy Your experience of poverty and suffering in this past life gives you a great empathy and understanding of people. If you choose to love them and do something for the community or the world you’ll be great at it! |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The PREVIOUS INCARNATION Test written by Fyrdancer on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
headache
StandardAlrighty then. Etoiline is now hosted at Site5.com. Seems like a great deal, and everything seems to be working on their end. On MY end, however…this is mainly a test post to see if MT is acting up, because the other big database hog on my site is my gallery, which is most vociferously protesting working. Unfortunately before I changed DNS settings, I didn’t look at the gallery installation and turn something off I should have before I ported it over. And I can’t change it without changing the DNS settings back, but when I tried to do that earlier, the domain didn’t resolve, when putting it at the new site took rather little time…maybe I’m just too impatient.
I just want to do a clean install of the whole thing, but I really don’t want to have to relabel everything…
the big 3-0
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Happy birthday to my favorite pirate-knight-elf. Best of luck this year.
stop this train
Standardbecause there’s a lot of things going on right now. and I’m procrastinating as usual. seemed appropriate to quote a little John Mayer.
No, I’m not colorblind
I know the world is black and white
I try to keep an open mind
But I just can’t sleep on this tonight
Stop this train
I want to get off
And go home again
I can’t take the speed it’s moving in
I know I can’t
But honestly, won’t someone stop this train?
Don’t know how else to say it
I don’t want to see my parents go
One generation’s length away
From finding life out on my own
Joyous 2007
StandardHappy New Year!
It might bode ill that I’m already too tired/lazy to make a graphic for this year, but you know I’m wishing you the best…
Good luck in 2007.
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strange to think (five years)
StandardStrange to think that five years ago today I saw my first Lord of the Rings movie. It was so long ago I have to link you to my first blog. Life has never been the same, eh?
What did I do before Orlando Bloom, elvish, Tolkien? I bet you can trace the upward movement of my lifetime word count in all my stories from December 2001 on…there were a few years there, in high school, I think, when I didn’t write at all, unless required…yet now I have 150,000 words in three years, and probably equal to that with other writing projects.
And think of all the money I’ve spent on the franchise, eek 😉
addicted
StandardToday is the last biochem class before the final (which isn’t cumulative, thank God), but since we didn’t have class last week due to really inclement weather (that’s the first time, excepting 9-11, that I have ever had a class cancelled at WU), there isn’t a way to make up the lost class without adding time to tonight’s lecture. So I will have freaking 4 and a half hours of biochem tonight, including the study session beforehand. And if he gives us more than one break during the hour-extended lecture, I’ll eat my hat. Well, not really, since I like my hat and it’s managed to stay with me, so far, with only a few moments of loss…
needless to say, that’s a really long night. And of course, with the final only a week away, I’ve got to be serious about studying. Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, sugars, dear Lord how am I going to remember it all? And then I see something in the text that I’ve been working with at work and I never knew anything else about it other than how to process it, and I feel ashamed.
Anyway, the title of the entry refers to the sad, wrenching feeling I had this morning as I laid aside my new copy of Cursor’s Fury and did not put it in my bag to bring with me. I can’t bring books to work when I’m supposed to be studying. I’ve learned that much, at least. But it’s so pathetic that I’m so addicted to reading that I want that book, right now. It’s so hard to study when that book (well, not specifically this book. Any good book will do) is sitting there, waiting to be read. I have to tell myself that I own the book, it will be there for me when I get back and done with this crazy class, but damn if I don’t still want it.
I guess it’s better to be addicted to books than, say, smoking. Good thing I don’t do both. I’d be in the poorhouse. You know that Borders Rewards thing? It’s embarrassing to think of the amount of Holiday Saving Rewards that I amassed this year, because that means I spent an atrocious amount of money at Borders. I probably pay the salary of one of their workers with all I spend there.
I need to find a job that lets me write fantasy and read other people’s fantasy. I would be set.