2. How awesome is the part in Bleach where Ichigo names his zanpakutō? (that's the geekiness, I finally started watching Bleach.)
3. Always a fangirl over the dark moody boys with glasses (Jin in Samurai Champloo, Uryū Ishida in Bleach, etc. etc.)
4. Anyone know any entry-level lab/biotech positions in the SF bay area? I'm trying to get my best friend moved up here and it's harder than doing it first-hand.
5. Will update more when it's not so damned hot.
I, just... can't.
http://www.fictionmatters.com/2009/06/03/d
- Mood:
blank
Anyway, on a commenting binge. Sorry guys. I suck at replies, though.
*sigh*
*attempts sleep for the hudredth time*
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
annoyed
Yes, it reallyreally does.
I used to like it (the font), it's curlicues and swirly alts and cutie-pie ligatures and it being a true Open Type, but.
It's now been stamped as a girly-crafty-indie-thirtysomething-cutes
Plus it's nevereverneverneverever properly letterspaced. EVEN IN BRANDING. Plus, like, why the fuck is Frito-Lay/PepsiCo. using a $40 wedding-invite font for their products and NOT DOING IT THEMSELVES?
Plus the half-finished graphic painting I've got in my living room awaiting more paint that is basically the alt-lowercase-k (glyph 156) in pink on grey just looks OLD now and that makes me angry, because I really really like the double-loopy on it. K's and M's are so hard to do creatively and properly proportioned that it just makes me all sorts of butthurt.
Can you tell I had caffeine after 5pm? Yeah, oops.
- Location:Somewhere between Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo
- Mood:
cranky
Borrowed the boy's iPhone to use the dictionary.com app to look up words while reading before bed & am attempting to make a post on it. It's such a handy wee tool. I'd love to have one, but I definitely don't need the phone part. I'll just keep stealing
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qdot's here now & then as a novelty. I'll attempt a real post at a later date with a real keyboard.
- Location:US, California, Alameda, Berkeley, Curtis St
- Mood:
lethargic
I always freak myself out by knowing this stuff. I didn't set out to be able to identify branding (though I am a graphic designer, something I steered towards because of this ability, not the other way around) but I can anyway. It's weird.
I also can tell you the name of or generally describe (with maybe a 1-2% failure rate, mostly with older celebrities) the person doing the voice-over for a commercial or in a cartoon. If it's got a (real) face attached, couldn't tell you anything, but give me just a voice, and I can nail it. Even with people I have NO CLUE who are (example: I said "oh, that's George Lopez" when being subjected to the Beverly Hills Chihuahua trailer before a movie. For the record, I have no clue who that guy is or even what he does, I just know his voice, apparently).
So, what's your wacky ability? Useless font of knowledge? Or maybe what would be your dream category on Jeopardy, the one you know everything about?
Another example is
qdot 's lame superhero ability to remember and recall lyrics. He doesn't listen to music with lyrics at all (just glitchy beepy stuff), but for some reason he picks lyrics up SUPER FAST and just retains them forever. Oh, that and he's a programming genius, but that's more a honed skill than weird brain-quirk.Btw, this is just for my own curiosity.
(originally posted to a community journal, but curious about my regular friendslist now, too.)
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
curious
Well, the evil MAH-duck (as Kyle and I were calling it) has either moved on, or the general noise of the outside world has increased enough that I don't hear it any more, which is a huge relief. I was seriously on eggshells last week just overwhelmed by life and weird noises just were like sandpaper on a sunburn.
Been doing a lot of thinking and sleeping. Mostly sleeping. And reading terrible books. And playing DS (anyone got favourite games they want to tell me about? I've almost beat Pokemon Pearl and I've finished Picross and Scrabble 2009 and am on the REALLY IMPOSSIBLE challenges on Peggle).
Some things I've been too overwhelmed to focus on are:
Fantasy Baseball (won my first week, though first day of this week, match-up against Kyle has him in the lead - FOR NOW)
social stuff (at all)
attempting to tame the chaos that is the house
anything creative, at all
birthdays (this kills me, I have so many gifts I've been in progress of making or getting-to making that are in a constant state of incomplete that is making me nuts)
I am keeping up on my friends list, and trying to comment where I can. I can't promise coherent comments or making any sense at all, but I have been trying to keep up.
I've got a ton of pictures on the (seemingly huge) 4 gig SD card sitting in my camera that I need to transfer and upload. There's some good stuff there, like the cat (yes I got her a Twitter account) being silly and Outdoor German Food (Speisekammer in Alameda for brunch Saturday with xiuv & qdot ). Now that I think on it, I can't even remember the last time I updated pictures. It's been too long.
Well, that's it, I guess. Anything anyone want to know? Anyone even missed me? (just kidding! :P )
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
silly
It hasn't paused or stopped. It's mom probably got fucking sick of it's hideous noise and ditched it, whatever it is. I cannot describe the noise properly, nor can I even begin to guess at what it might be. I'm only speculating on the bird thing because it sounds like it's coming from "up". We have several enormous redwoods right around the building, so I'm assuming it's in one of those. It's also non-directional, only slightly louder in the bedroom (yay) than in the kitchen or living room. And yes, you can hear it in every room in the house. It also penetrates headphones and music and television and blankets and pillows.
It's fucking evil, whatever it is.
It's more annoying than the "peep peep chiiiiiiirrrrp peep" that was annoying me in the temporary apartment in SF, and it's actually worse than the baby bird nest that was in my closet in Norman. At least those were cute cheepy "pirp" noises that were irregular. This one is regular, piercing, and CONSTANT. Ugh.
- Mood: annoyed
- Music:MAH(pause)MAH(pause)MAH
Been sleeping most of the time.
Spent the last week in semi-withdrawals from both my meds and caffeine (off some meds = pain = sleep = getting up at night = no caffeine = extra no-fun)
Uh... got distracted and lost this window for about 6 hours. Oops.
Nothing really new in my world. Had a small scare with the kitty - thought she might have asthma, but it turned out to just be an infection. She's surprisingly easy to pill (knock wood. Seriously, I've never met a cat that is so easily confused and distracted and therefore easy to pill. Ashes would foam at the mouth if you even THOUGHT about giving her a pill!) so the brief run of antibiotics should patch her up just fine.
Um... yeah, that's about it. So, yeah. Hi.
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
okay
I haven't posted, or even read in a long time, but I wanted to pop on and say:
Happy 12th Anniversary
To qdot & myself.
I cannot believe it's been this long and we haven't killed each other!
Love you babe!
/end silly squishy stuff
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood: indescribable
Earlier this past week, they were coming in my clothes closet, taking over my dirty clothes and the whole bedroom. I had ants in the bed, in/on my laptop... everywhere. It was so fucking traumatising. Now, they're in Kyle's "office" (the dining room), living room from there, and the kitchen.
We spray and spray and spray and clean up as much as we can, but this building is so shitty, there are cracks, holes, doors that don't close, and, well, everything's just busted.
This place is cute and quaint, but FUCK if I don't miss those managed people-hives with real people who fix things and real pest control (or any at all, really) and, yaknow, weather on the OUTSIDE of the apartment.
We'd move, but, really, have YOU tried looking for apartments in Berkeley around August? I'd rather sit in a tank of ants than do that shit again.
Edited to add:
You know that creepy crawly-bugs-all-over freak-out that happens in the movies when people are on acid? Yeah, it's like that, only with real bugs and no LSD.
I'd rather have the drugs.
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
pissed off
Sorry for the back-log post. I meant to do them in order.
The dessert from our gourmet "takeout" dinner from Gregoire for Valentine's day.
This is a chocolate mousse tarte with pears and white chocolate wine sauce. It looks a little ... beige ... but was the most delicious thing EVER. Plus... *heart shaped*
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
hungry
This is the view out our living room floor-to-ceiling window... it's rarely open as it looks directly into several other people's windows, too, but it was too neat watching the rain and sun come and go today.
Day 11
Went shopping at Dick Blick. I had a gift card because they don't give you real money when you return something paid for by check.
Reorganised my Roll of 28 Flickr set-up. Now there's a collection for Roll of 28 2009 with each day having it's own set within the collection. Perhaps it'll be easier to navigate. Who knows. We'll try it.
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
contemplative
Day 06
Someone's forgotten cigar on a windowsill outside at Peet's.
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood: cold
Day 04
My bag, the Boy's bag
( Day 05 after cut )
- Location:Berkeley, CA
- Mood:
sleepy
A typical Sunday night, with too much flash. I hate the on-camera flash, I think I want a TTL flash before a new lens. (shooting with a Nikon D40x)
Boy: It angers me.
Me: NOT THE THIRTY INCH?!!?!?
Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
Me: THAT IS A CRIME AGAINST GOD
Me: There needs to be a significant static shock to fingers near monitors
Me: srsly
Me: it should HURT YOU to touch one (especially that big)
- Mood: grumpy