You know, with all the stuff I'm picking up lately, I'm almost forgetting about how my creative efforts started. No, not drawing, because I was writing even before then. Sometimes I wonder where my life will go if I take up the figurative pen again (perhaps not figurative--i still prefer hand writing). If so, I need to focus on original work, which I've only dabbled in. Fanfics are fun and all, but I'm getting to the point (and age) where I might as well make my hobbies work for me.
I'm currently editing the fan epic of my high school years. 250 pages in it's original form, the rewritten one will be longer. There's no avoiding that; even with as little as I've written since graduation, I've still developed as a writer. That seems to happen to me. When I put down something, my skills don't stagnate. They refresh. It's like they take a mad skillz vacation and come back, if not better, than different and new.I wonder what I'm going to write, aside from my revision adventure. I need some direction. Oh, well. Something to think on.

Blogging from the blackberry puts wicked cramps in my thumbs. I need thumb-bells.

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I sewed a bunch today. I actually lost track of time-i'd asked Spike what time it was (about 8:30), and when I looked at my phone at what felt like fifteen minutes later, it was 9:45. Haha. Me and my hobbies. Speaking of my hobbies, I'm taking the leash off my knitting/crochet blog and letting it be about everything I craft. Frankly, I do too much shit just to write about two things.

In other news, I fianlly got the internet to work on the crackberry (ha- most of what you just read was composed on the toilet), which is good, 'cause Rabbit and I forgot to pay the cable/internet bill. Sunflower shut us down today. Oops.

The twenty-second birthday festivities went well, despite the absence of a cherished few. There had never been that many people in our living room. I think I counted twelve, which doesn't sound like much, but the House of Two Squirrels is a fraking rabbit warren.

My friend-from-high-school, Monica, is pregnant. Holy cheese. I don't want to think about people my age/I've grown up with breeding. In related news, bridesmaid dress shopping on Sunday. Yay.

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 Job, job, job. It brings in the bread, but after a week of overtime, whoa, nelly, am I getting burnt out. Working in a government call center will do that, especially when every conservative wingnut is squealing "OH NOES, SOCIALISMS!" and then holding out a hand for their sproggies' educations. Bleh. Nothing extremely funny to report on that front, other than a few middle-class helicopter moms with a serious persecution complex, but seriously, what else is new? 

I turn 22 in two days. I've decided that I like twos. 

Due to Spikey-boy's lax downloading practices, I am forced to abandon my beloved Firefox in favor of Google Chrome. Secret: No government website will allow you accurate input on Google Chrome yet. They're really fucking slow to update their user interfaces, especially over at the good ol' department of ed'. 

I spent entirely too much money on a shiny new phone that I haven't even gotten to function properly yet. I've named it Tatl, in honor of an annoying (but cool) fairy some of you Zelda fans will be familiar with.  I need to find a dingle bell ring tone. I've already gotten "HEY LISTEN~!"

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.



1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. 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 - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - GeorgeEliot
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 - LeoTolstoy
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 - CS Lewis (wtf, isn't this redundant? Oops, there I am, having intellectual faith in memes again)
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 - A.A.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 Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M.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-time – 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 - DonnaTartt
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's 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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - DavidMitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - KazuoIshiguro
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
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in Spanish, nonetheless)
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 (another one. I'm beginning to wonder if this list actually came from the BBC.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Not bad. I consider myself a bit of a reader, though, so I see several additions to my "To Read" list.

No improvement. No dreams, but the trigger worked, rather perversely.

I'm knitting a sweater. Going to try to have it done by the end of the week.

I had some dreams last night that have been bothering me all day. Just when I think I train myself out of a self-destructive obsession, my subconscious just has to pop up and be a bitch. I'm going to start chugging NyQuil before bed.

Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
Sense and Sensibility
A Little Princess*

*read previously

Tried to listen to Emma, but couldn't stand it. Just started Little Women. Bless Project Gutenberg.

I've also started a self-styled French program. Yay!

KU, in all of its infinite bureaucratic wisdom, has decided to charge me for all of the classes I've completely withdrawn from. Holy shit. Bursar's office is getting an angry phone call tomorrow.

Let's see.

I've dropped out of school due to unspecified financial issues. I will be returning next fall, pending revised federal aid applications and my acceptance to JCCC. But, since I'm no longer a student at KU, I've lost my student job. Not cool, especially with the new apartment. My job search has been extremely modest thus far. I need to remember that I can take my knitting on the bus.

That said, I've been knitting and crocheting a nearly shameful amount and completely neglecting any drawing. This includes my brief foray into the world of the student newspaper comics section. I wasn't even sure they were still publishing me, anyway. I hadn't gotten borderline irate emails from them, unlike my call center boss, who was disturbingly prompt in finding out I had completely withdrawn from classes. The newspaper wasn't paying me, anyway, and I could use that time more productively. I should, anyway. Of course this whole thing has made me even more reclusive than usual, and I've only left the house to go to O town with Jordan and to go get sloshed at Panther's house last Monday. I haven't been that drunk in a long time. It was scary to be one moment watching Metalocalypse at someone else's place and the next waking up alone and fully clothed in my own bed wondering what the hell just happened. Jordan wasn't very happy with me. Apparently during my journey into the world of extreme intoxication I had punched him in the face not once, but twice. My knuckles bear witness to this. We've made up since. My hangover was enough punishment, but he dished his own out in the form of day-long ribbings.

Go forth and look at my yarn blog. Do it, do it.

Really, though, I'm only a little bummed. Just a little.

I am entering a time of great upheaval. Le sigh.


I must cuddle the wheezy kitty and think happy thoughts.

...since my last post.

The House of Two Squirrels has hit the ground running. I still need to organize things and bully Spike into hanging up his posters, but otherwise, we're functional.

I'm hungry. Damned New Year's resolutions. I ate a fucking bag of Doritos last night, after eating dinner at Spike's Mom's.

I wish emotions were subject to logic. My life would be so much simpler.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKK.


That is all for now. Elaboration, perhaps, later.

I has returned from it in one piece, though Jordan got eaten by a yeti.

Woo-hoo! My muffler is now dangling by the back end of the pipe connecting it to my motor. It was only a matter of time, I guess.

I just watched Fight Club cover-to-cover for the first time ever tonight. Ah, to have tasted the glory that was Brad Pitt's pelvic cut. *grumbles about LJ automatically closing tags*

Meme
Got this from nearly everybody except for Dragoness_E and chancrescolex. I sincerely doubt Jhonen would do something like this, anyway.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).


"'Codice of Chimeria killed the last one two hundred years ago. I don't know what we're seeing, but they aren't dragons.' 'But they carried us up in the air! In that hall there must have been hundreds--' 'I expect it was just magic,' said Hrun, dismissively."

The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett.

So.

Those of you who know me in real life (tm) know me by one or more of the following:

PK
Ed
MacKenzie

So there.