So, who else is going to Emerald City Comic-Con? Cos it looks like I'll be there on Saturday (much to my surprise and with many thanks to maxxim_huzzah).

Also, I realize that for most of my friends, St. Paddy's Day falls on a work night, but is there anyone who is free and would like to hang out and get a drink or two?

:DDDDD

OMG you guys, LEGO Rock Band is the cutest thing. Played it with sjen last night. Aaah, little LEGO Freddie Mercury, my heart~ While I was there, Sjen also very kindly loaded up my new external (500GB, fully portable, her name is Vienna and she is SO SEXY) with a bunch of new shows to watch, including White Collar and Human Target, and also some new anime called Durarara!!, which is apparently by the Baccano! team? And like Baccano! has a million characters and nonlinear storytelling and lots of violence and lightheartedness mixed together. So. That'll be fun. Also I feel compelled to watch any show which can be abbreviated as DRRR.

I am making progress on the Sherlock Holmes front: I'm now on "HIs Last Bow", which is actually not the last but the second to last book. Is it just my imagination, or does this series just get gayer and gayer as it goes on? First "The Dying Detective" (which is gonna break my heart when I watch the Brett version, I tell you, BREAK MY GODDAMN HEART) and then, last night, as I was listening to "The Devil's Foot", I just about died of happiness. These books, you guys. I love them so. ♥

The pink line shows the route loquacious and I took today as we walked around north Seattle. 9.39 miles, fueled only by oatmeal, water and cupcakes. I'm gonna sleep well tonight. ♥


Finished my first week of full time! Start on the second tomorrow. Doing all right so far; wish me luck!

I have made.... strawberry shortcake!!! Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal, but considering that (a) I originally intended to make pancakes but realized before starting that I had no eggs (prior to this morning I had had eggs, but no milk) and (2) I cocked up the batter by adding 1 2/3 cups of milk instead of 2/3 of a cup, I'd say it turned out pretty good!

I was not at all systematic in my approach; once I realized I'd screwed up, I added ....an amount of sugar and ...an amount of butter and... a certain quantity of pancake mix. VERY SCIENTRIFICAL. And then I poured it all into a cake pan seeing as (1) we seem to have no cookie sheets, a fact which had escaped my notice, and (b) the dough was too runny to hold together otherwise. So now my shortcake is... actually a cake! That you can cut up and put strawberries and cream on! And, despite my best efforts, I think it's pretty tasty! :D

I have single-handedly managed to wrest a good result from... something which should never have been this difficult in the first place. ^^:



Also, my boss called today and asked me if I'd like to meet on Monday about starting to work full time AAAAAHHHHHH

Streaming Season 4 of Doctor Who on Netflix, and I was thinking of skipping "Midnight" cos I remembered not liking it too much, but now I'm glad I did because AAAHHH GRUMPY TEENAGE MERLIN AAAHHH

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2010's been good to you so far, and continues to be so. I hope that for you, it's a year full of discovery, happiness and love; I hope that it's refreshing and new, and that, as Lucy of "Peanuts" puts it, we haven't been stuck with a 'used year'.

2009 was a big year for me, for a number of reasons. Here's a little retrospective on some of the things that made last year significant to me -- assuming I can remember what I was doing! orz my memory~

( for auld lang syne )

As for New Year's resolutions, I've got a few. I'm resolved to do everything I can to find full-time employment this year, and to find an apartment with it's own washer-dryer, and that allows pets. I'm resolved to doubt myself less, to be more positive and loving, to have more faith in myself and more kindness for others. I'm resolved to continue working on my art, and get that website I'm working on with entropicdragon up and running. I'm resolved to keep working hard, and to live my life to the fullest. Cos I'm an adult now, even if I don't always feel like it, and the time is NOW.

Happy New Year's, everyone.

• I always seem to watch a lot of movies when I'm home with my family. On Monday my mom and brothers and I went to see "Invictus", which, if you haven't heard of it, is the one directed by Clint Eastwood, where Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon plays a lot of rugby. It was very well done: well-directed, well-acted, and well-timed. God was being pretty generous the day Mr. Eastwood came along. Then on Christmas Eve we all watched "It's A Wonderful Life" (forgoing our other traditional Christmas movie, "Die Hard"). It's amazing to me how well that movie has aged, that it can still make a pair of 18-year-old boys who are by this point almost surgically attached to their PSPs laugh out loud and cheer. It remains a really wonderful film, even 60 years after it was first released; perhaps that's why it's never been remade. And of course, everyone got DVDs for Christmas (I myself am now the proud owner of "Up"!) and so yesterday (after trying and failing to go see "Avatar" because parking was impossible and timing was poor) we watched "Star Trek" (the new one) and had a grand old time. Such a good movie (even if I'm not entirely happy with Uhura's characterization). And my dad got the Ultimate "Watchmen" DVD, which has the Tales of the Black Freighter segments incorporated into the complete film, and I want to watch it so baaaaaad. God, that movie makes me happy in so many ways.

• Despite the fact that I live in Seattle, on Christmas Eve I somehow managed to catch a cold while visiting (comparatively) warm NorCal. But, by some seasonal miracle, by Christmas morning I had almost completely recovered; now the only sneezing I do is the aftereffect of my cousin's adorable cats.

• Christmas was lovely; the morning was spent opening presents and having our traditional holiday breakfast (sans bacon, sadly, cos it had gone smelly, but my grandmother had brought pumpkin bread) and then over to my cousins' in San Francisco for more family and my cousin's amazing cooking. I'm so glad that I could spend this time with my family; as yet I have never spent a Christmas anywhere else, and I don't think it would be Christmas without them.

• I am now the proud owner of a sexy, sexy red 16GB iPod Nano, which I have christened Enzo. ♥

• My family now has Rock Band 2! My brothers and I spent last night working our way through tour mode, and they've already gotten much better with guitar and drums (although convincing them to try singing is still pretty difficult). Even my dad's been playing! And he's never played a video game in his life! :DDD It's so oddly adorable.

• Today is my dad's birthday, so we're going down to the Star Trek exhibit at the San Jose Tech Museum, and then to dinner... somewhere, not sure where. And tomorrow I fly back to Seattle.

Happy holidays, everyone. ♥

omg omg omg

you guys you guys you guys

PART TIME JOB GET

Now, to celebrate with a BATH

uwaaaaaa~! ☆__☆

Good on ya, Disney, for learning from your mistakes, subverting your own tropes, handling race in a way that I found both tasteful and inoffensive*, putting the emphasis back on story and character, bringing back your 2D department, and overall making a really good movie.

♥

* Even if it did take you till 2009 to release a movie with a black main character, FFS

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Now, to see if I can make it through Purgatory without dying.

Edit: FUCK YES A SAVE POINT

RENAME ME!

I like starbird but it's taken on LJ and anyway I want to see what kind of responses I get. XD

*****

By the way, to all my friends who've been so supportive of me while I've been looking for a job and freaking out over lack of said job -- thank you so much. I love you all, and I'm so grateful. ♥

Also, CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO lunapome and music_enforcer!