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I don't know why.. but in some sick way this really made me laugh xD
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[08 Aug 2008|12:49pm] |
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I finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. It was pretty good I think. Its funny to me how different popular representations of things like Dracula and Frankenstein are from the books that they originate from. Plus its interesting that they are considered "horror" novels, and were scary for their time, but how "horror" of this time has jaded me to the point that I don't find them particularly scary any more. More interesting than scary I guess. When I first read Frankenstein back in 12th grade I was left with the feeling that "Halloween has apparently been lying to me". Dracula gives me this same feeling I think. I'm also surprised how much that 1992 movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula" deviates from the story but calls it such. I'll have to rewatch it tonight to see.
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Stolen from Ressu ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crucifix
1. What curse word do you use the most?
Fuck.
2. Do you own an iPod?
Yep.
3. What person on your flist do you talk to the most?
Hmm...myself I guess, Cetta next maybe.
4. What time is your alarm clock set to?
Depends on when I have work.
5. Do you still remember the first person you kissed?
Of course.
6. Do you remember where you were on 9/11/01?
I was at school in my World History 1 class up in CT. The TV in the classroom was turned on to show the second tower crashing. After that class I didn't hear anything about it for the rest of the day until the next when no one would shut up about it.
7. Would you rather take the picture or be in the picture?
Taking it, I'm so unphotogenic :\
8. What was the last movie you watched?
The Time of Apes: A Japanese wannabe Planet of the Apes that was being shown on MST3K.
9. Do any of your friends have children?
By now, probably, but I don't really considered people who were my "friends" to be my friends any more for the most part, aside from one or two.
10. Has anyone ever called you lazy?
Only myself.. and maybe Daniel jokingly :D.
11. Do you ever take medication to help you fall asleep?
Nope.
12. What CD is currently in your CD player?
I don't listen to CDs much any more.. but prolly Running With Scissors by Weird Al.
13. Do you prefer regular or chocolate milk?
Soy milk, although I prefer the chocolate variety :)
14. Has anyone told you a secret this week?
I don't think so.
15. When was the last time you had Starbucks?
I hate coffee and I hate Starbucks more, so never actually.
16. Can you whistle?
Yep taught myself when I was in second grade :)
17. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite/same sex?
Guys: eyes, hands, smile; Girls: clothes (degree of whorishness), smile
18. What are you looking forward to?
Being done with college, leaving Gainesville, and hopefully getting into JET.
19. Did you watch cartoons as a child?
You know it. I still watch them.
20. Do you own any band t-shirts?
Nope.
21. What will you be doing in one hour?
Eating when I get home from work probably.
22. Is anyone in love with you?
For sure.
23. What was the last song you heard?
Ievan Polka by Loituma.
24. Last time you cried?
Maybe a month ago, last time I felt frustrated with my parental unit.
25. Are you on a desktop computer or a laptop?
Desktop at work.
26. Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos?
Not really, not much my thing, although since Daniel has a tattoo maybe I'll get one for shit and giggles some time.
27. What’s the weather like?
Who knows, I've been in this computer lab all day. Probably hot and humid though :\
28. Would you ever date a girl/guy covered in tattoos?
I'm already taken by someone who isn't, but it depends on the person's personality not their looks imo.
29. What did you do before this?
Was bored at work and read my friends page.
30. When was the last time you slept on the floor?
Last night, Daniel and I only have a twin bed so we share a spot on the floor together :)
31. How many hours of sleep do you need to function?
Depends on what I need to function for, anywhere from 0-10 although I prefer 9 :)
32. Do you eat breakfast daily?
Not really. My schedule is too messed up to do anything regularly for the most part.
33. Are your days fast-paced?
Only when school is in I think.
34. What did you do last night?
Watched Daniel play video games, ate, read, slept.
35. Do you use sarcasm?
I dunno do I?
36. How old will you be turning on your next birthday?
Twenty-two.
37. Are you picky about spelling and grammar?
Depends.
38. Have you ever been to six flags?
Only once as a group member of choir in seventh grade.
39. Do you get along better with the same sex or the opposite sex?
I get along with anyone for the most part.. but if I like them or not is another question.
40. Do you like mustard?
No wayz.
41. Do you sleep on your side?
Sometimes, although I have been trying to sleep on my back more often nowadays.
42. Do you watch the news?
I don't watch TV.
43. How did you get one of your scars?
From moving my mom to a new apartment once. Her metal bed frame slipped from my fingers and the corner sliced a huge gash down the side of my left hand below the thumb.
44. Who was the last person to make you mad?
My mom.
45. Do you like anybody?
A few.
46. What is the last thing you purchased?
Food.
47. What side of the heart do you draw first?
Left-side.
48. Can you dive without plugging your nose?
No. Even though I live in FL and was -born- here I still can't swim without holding my nose...
49. What colour is your razor?
Pink prolly.
50. What is your blood-type?
Not sure, although I should find out before I go tot Japan!~!.
51. Who would you want to be tied to for 24 hours?
No one.. I get somewhat claustrophobic in situations where I can't move around well... but I'd say Daniel I guess?
52. What is a rumor someone has spread about you?
That I was pregnant when Daniel proposed to me when I turned 18. People in high school get so uppity about things like proposals but then just a few years later they are popping out kids.. I really don't get it.
53. How do you feel about carrots?
They are orange?
54. How many chairs at the dining room table?
I don't have a dining room table, although there are four chairs that came with our card table that we use as one sometimes.
55. Which is the best Spice Girl?
I never really liked any of them... but I guess Posh spice annoyed me the least at the time.
56. Do you know what time it is?
3:48PM EST.
57. Do you know all the words to the Fresh Prince Theme Song?
Of course, but when I was younger I didn't know them all so I made some up :P
58. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator?
Prolly wish I had a book, or listen to the elevator music for a while. If I got really bored I might start debating some math problems.
59. What’s your favourite kind of gum?
Fruit stripe gum, and I used to like Juicy Fruit a lot too.
60. T or F: All’s fair in love and war?
False?
61. Do you have a crush on anyone?
Nope.
62. Do you know how to use some words correctly, but not know the meaning?
Prolly, but I wouldn't use them then more likely than not.
63. Do you like to sleep?
Yep.
64. Do you know which US states don’t use Daylight Savings Time?
Rhode Island used to not.. not so sure now though.
65. Do you know the song Total Eclipse of the Heart?
Only the chorus.
66. Do you want a bright yellow '06 mustang?
No. First of all American cars suck, second of all I'll only love '87 Camero's as long as I live.
67. What's something you’ve always wanted?
I don't have anything I've always wanted. Except maybe for people to -finally- treat me with respect.. never gonna happen though as far as I can tell.
68. Do you have hairy LEGS?
If I'm lazy.
69. Would you rather swim in the ocean or a lake?
Neither...
70. Do you wear a lot of black?
Probably.. I wear a lot of Daniel's clothes so you'd have to ask him.
71. Describe your hair:
Just cut it a couple days ago.. so a little past my shoulders, stick straight, really fine strands, lightish brownish/blonde
72. Do you have Entomophobia?
Nope. I always have to get rid of the bugs in my house :\ Stupid Daniel stands on the bed and points at them.
73. Are you an adult?
Sure thing.
74. Where is/are your best friend(s)?
In another computer lab.
75. Do you have a tan?
Accidentally prolly from being outside.
76. Are you a television addict?
No. I haven't watched tv in about 3 years.
77. Do you enjoy spending time with your mother?
Hell no.
78. Are you a sugar freak?
No. I don't like sweets very much.
79. Do you like orange juice?
YES WITH LOTS OF PULP!
80. What sign are you?
Aquarius~!
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This REALLY cracked me up: Its from one of my favorite movies (if you can call it that.. more like TV miniseries/movie) the 10th Kingdom that was on TV back in I think 2000/2001.
BTW this song scared me soooo much when I was younger... I couldn't listen to it without having to change the channel on the radio :o!
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I just read the synopses of the Twilight series books. They sound like some of the most retarded books I have ever heard of. Stop me if I am wrong, but aren't these young adult books? Wtf is everyone doing reading them then? Pick up a book more along the lines of your reading level... or maybe this is their level :o? Sorry for the rant, but they just sound so bleh :C
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[02 Aug 2008|08:59pm] |
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So a few days ago Daniel and I made home made fondue :x. It wasn't as hard I thought it would be originally, and actually pretty simple. Its a little bit more (price-wise) than buying the pre-made boxes of fondue, but it was pretty tasty all the same. We used some Emmentaler cheese from Norway, and some Gruyère from I think Switzerland. I've always really like gruyere (since the packaged fondue I always got had it in it), but I hadn't had it without the spices and such added to make it fonduey before. Its actually really good by itself. It seems sorta similar to a muenster cheese. Well we bought a grater for the cheese as well since I guess you have to do that to make fondue, and I ended up grating the top of one of my knuckles off. It didn't hurt or bleed though so it was ok still. This entry sounds sort of strange to me, I guess I am sorta tired and not writing my best.. but on with my story!~
I guess I'll start from the beginning now, so ignore that stuff up there. This predates that first paragraph by like three weeks: So we decided to make fondue after we saw a cheap pot on Amazon that was stainless steel. The pot we had before had like a Teflon coating on it that was being scratched by the fondue forks (why it had Teflon and metal forks I'll never know), and the fondue forks themselves were sorta getting rusty but we couldn't find just the forks themselves anywhere. PLUS we needed a cookie sheet/baking pan since our old ones we had gotten from Dan's folks had seen better days. So we ordered a new fondue set and a cookie sheet (plus a jelly roll pan thing was on sale for like 6 bucks~ so we got that too), and they were all stainless steel and really cheap!. Much better than our old plain steel and Teflon ones. Its also apparently impossible to find stainless steel pans in any store, anywhere. We looked in tons of stores in the mall and Walmart and Target and everywhere. All they have as far as pans go are shitty aluminum (Alzheimer's no thanks~!) covered in Teflon (kills birds no thanks~!) or steel (rusts no thanks~!) covered in Teflon (see above no thanks~!), so it was awesomely awesome that we found some good quality stainless stuff online. So anyways, once we got our pot in the mail we looked up recipes for fondue and they all called for white wine which we ended up getting as well. It was actually funny getting the wine since we've never bought alcohol before and we usually do all of our grocery shopping at Save A Lot and they don't really have alcohol there. So we ended up going to the Albertson's next door to get it and came out with some really random things. We had our 5 dollar bottle of some sort of whitish colored wine, some IBC root beer on sale, the cheeses we needed, and some salsa that was also on sale. The check out guy didn't even card us (even though I -just- turned 21 not that long ago). I guess that that is one benefit of living in a college town even if everything else sucks (if you drink that is).
So anyways back to where I was. We were grating the cheese and everything and adding it to the pot with the lemon juice and white wine stuff and we realized that people must -really- like winey fondue. It was way too liquidy. We're prolly gonna make some more tonight since we have some cheese left over and some of the "fondue" we made last time left over. We'll just have to add less wine this time. Oh also, the cheese that we saved from the fondue tasted horrible cold lol. Too winey I guess. All in all it was really tasty and yummy :D
On a side note, my school (University of Florida) was named the number one party school in the nation last week. I really don't doubt it. See above mention of not being carded as to why.
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You sure can find strange things on Wikipedia. I was looking up Dracula by Bram Stoker (I've started reading it) and through some massive expedition of linking links I came across the Japanese film series "Guinea Pig". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_%28film_series%29) I only watched the trailer for FOFAB on youtube and I am officially a little queazy. I then went to read the reviews of it on Amazon (morbid things have a way of making you want to read more about them), and everyone loved them. It got me thinking about how strange some people are. I mean slasher/snuff films in general are pretty extreme imo, but then I couldn't help but think about the race issue that might be involved here. I mean do people enjoy it more since it is an Asian woman (or man in one of the other films) since maybe they don't have to think of the people as being real? I mean would there be a different reaction from Westerners if the ones being "brutalized" were white English speakers? One of the reviewers summed it up for me: "The Japanese element is a definite plus and gives it some comic relief". Comic relief??? America certainly has a mass that is too desensitized to violence. Maybe we would be out of the war already if it wasn't.
edit: in a linked article from the Guinea Pig one is a film entitled Cannibal Holocaust. Apparently they killed six animals on film for it. Why do people think to do such things? I have no idea. Also, again with the natives (and on another note they have pretty Japanese-esque names)
edit edit: the more I look around at movies in this vein the more and more I am convinced that there is a race element. I mean there are Japanese women in Hostel too! The one girl is murdered and the other commits harakiri oh oops I mean suicide because of the shame she feels from her disfigured eye! :\
This is a kicker for me about Hostel II: "Former Slovak minister of culture Milan Kňažko played Sasha, the head of the torture ring." CULTURE minister rofl.
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So in theory, Barugon will be made to die by his own rainbow.
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Apparently Activision and Blizzard might be merging. Maybe Blizzard will have more than 1 game every five years that way.
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So I am re-reading The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. I just finished reading the Gadfly as well. I highly recommend them both :)
* In a 1979 interview released in 2007, Douglas Adams discussed Vonnegut as an influence on The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy[4]:
"Sirens of Titan is just one of those books – you read it through the first time and you think it's very loosely, casually written. You think the fact that everything suddenly makes such good sense at the end is almost accidental. And then you read it a few more times, simultaneously finding out more about writing yourself, and you realize what an absolute tour de force it was, making something as beautifully honed as that appear so casual."
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This guy has come to talk to me every shift I work on Thursdays...
( Creepy guy at work )
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The average adult has read only 6 of top 100 books.
Look at the list and:
1. Bold those you have read.
2. Italicize those you intend to read.
3. Underline the books you LOVE.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (one collection)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'm a little disappointed with the number I've read... especially since I own more than half of these and haven't gotten around to them yet... It's a shame too how many I've started and didnt' finish (so I didn't include them in "ones I've read") I italicized the ones I own even if I don't particularly plan on getting around to very soon. GUESS I"LL GO READ NOW :O
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Daniel and I started watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 again. Its so funny. Whats more funny though is that I forgot how much I enjoy this show. The only sucky thing is that the episodes are not out in order of season on DVD and that the DVDs cost about a bajillion dollars just for like 4 episodes. So not worth it. I don't know if the show is on the air anymore, I don't think it is, but even if it was I would never waste my money paying for cable to watch it. Sooooooo we did the unthinkable, something we swore to never do, we are DLing them as torrents... DUN DUN DUN~! Its taking -forever- to get them.. but in the end we'll have them all (except for three episodes for which no fan copy exists). I haven't really been doing much lately besides the usual work and more work and eating *homemade ice cream*, but things are going well. Its hard to believe that school starts back soon! I'm excited ^________^. I dunno why I always get excited, in about a week after school starts I'll be all "I hate these classes and I especially dislike these teachers~!~", but for some reason the idea of going back to school thrills me, always has.
Yesterday at work I started going through one of the mangajin magazine issues we picked up for a quarter each at the last county booksale. They are really quite awesome. Tons of articles written in Japanese with the English translations next to them, manga frames translated to English to show specific grammar points, and even English comics like Shoe and The Far Side translated into Japanese with the humor explained in Japanese. Its really fun to go through them (they are actually kinda old from like 1992-1995 or so) but at the same time it makes me realizes how far I have to go to be able to read the Japanese with native-like competency.
I really hope those Upward Bound kids don't come into the lab today, they are really noisy and obnoxious and EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE LIKE ONLY A FEW YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME I FEEL LIKE I AM BABYSITTING!! Its quite annoying :\
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