Sorry I haven’t been updating
It’s not just that I’ve been busy, although I have been busy.
But yeah.
I got my own domain name finally, so this is going to be the last post on here ever.
From now on I can be found at:
It’s hardly set up at all yet, but that’s just because I’m lazy.
I’ll take care of it eventually, don’t you worry.
But I hope those of you who have faithfully e-stalked me through the years will continue to do so over there.
Thanks!
The Best of My Bookmarks: Part II
Here it is, finally, what I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for. Also, school is finally over for me and I am more or less free for the summer. So hooray for that, I say!
Off to the bookmarks:
We Feel Fine – We Feel Fine is “An exploration of human emotion, in six movements.” It’s really hard to describe it. But it goes out into the internet somehow or other and finds emotions. Check it out, it’s fun and time consuming and interesting. My review does not do it any credit at all, go see for yourself.
Lulu – I haven’t actually used Lulu yet, because I’m all lazy and such, but from what I’ve heard and seen it’s really cool. It’s free to sign up and it lets you publish yourself and then sell your stuff. So you can make money. And I know I like making money (and subsequently spending it in the next few minutes…).
Busted Tees – We all know that I love witty/funny/whatever t-shirts, and Busted has lots of them. A lot of them are a little too pop-cultury for me, but I’m still a fan of the site. And the prices aren’t too bad either, which is pretty awesome.
One Sentence – One Sentence is yet another awesome exploration into the human experience. People can subit one sentence stories to the site and they are then displayed. It’s an excellent showing of how much just one sentence can say.
Experience Project – Another thing I’ve linked before, but is still awesome. Go there, get involved, see how many other people have the same quirky thoughts, urges, and experiences as you. You’re not alone.
Not Always Right – If you’ve ever worked a job dealing with customer interaction you know how stupid people are. This site is a collection of submitted stories of some of the best and the brightest. It’s in the same format as the Overheard sites.
Buttersafe – I also have a huge soft spot in my heart for webcomics, and Buttersafe is one of my favorites. It is plain and simple and absolutely hilarious in all the right ways. It updates Tuesdays and Thursdays and I am there every single Tuesday and Thursday to check it out.
Okay I just got incredibly bored of this for tonight. Sorry for it being so short.
That just means that The Best of My Bookmarks: Part III will appear sometime.
Hooray for the laziness, procrastination, and boredom that had an incredibly anticlimactic orgy to spawn me.
Snickers and Pina Coladas
It was somewhere around the time that people started to tell me that I was good at writing that I got scared of it. Once people have expectations you can fail to meet them. I was okay with writing and trying and putting the passion I feel into words before people told me I was good at it. But once people started complimenting me I became utterly afraid of failing. I’ve never seen my writing as anything special, so I was always afraid that people would start to realize that and get let down when they see me writing. Or else maybe they would think that I was all cocky and thought I was good at writing even though I’m not. I don’t really know.
I think that’s the real reason I changed my major. It isn’t because I really hate writing papers. I’m just too scared to try hard, and fail. If I didn’t try on my papers and I got like a B or a B- I was perfectly alright, because hey, I could’ve tried and done better. But if I try and don’t do as well as I expect, then I’m all like, “hey, I’m a failure.” And I don’t like failing.
But writing isn’t always right. No one gets it right all of the time. I need to be able to keep that in my mind and be more than just able to say it. I also need to remind myself that I can still change my writing after it’s already been written and that that is actually common practice and encouraged. I always seem to have trouble going back and proofreading and editing for whatever reason.
The point of all this is? I want to start writing again. I don’t know what I want to write. But I want to write something. I need to write something.
Cinematic Adventures : Speed Racer!
After all the hype, we were very excited to see the Wachowski brothers’ supposedly cutting-edge adaptation of what was probably anime’s first big successful franchise here in the U.S. back in the 1960’s.
While the plot line of the film was barely groundbreaking, I thought the visual style and CGI effects were quite impressive. Colorfully fast paced. It might be too much to handle for some people (epileptics, for instance)…
The races were a lot of fun to watch; zig-zagging turns, the crescendo of roaring engines, somersaulting vehicles, loopy tracks, exotic scenery, the raging saboteurs, the flashing lights… vaguely reminiscent of the pod races in The Phantom Menace, but with more sugary goodness. It’s definitely like a “live cartoon,” and it’s a great family film in all its cheesy retro glory. We left the theater feeling dandy!
And yes, while I thought that the film had outstanding visual kinetics, I felt that somewhere in the pool of special effects, the characters themselves seemed to fade into all the lights and noise. The movie certainly appeals to a younger audience, as it seems that most of the scenes struggled to jump-start your attention and just couldn’t “sit still.” But then again, it is a kids’ movie. The story was “cute.”
Oh, and does anyone else think it’s weird to hear Speed say “shit???”
All in all, it was fun, exciting, and entertaining!
- Joyceline
Happy Cinco de Mayo
So Thursday’s post was the first of (hopefully) many guest posts by Joyceline. As I’m sure you can tell, she’s pretty awesome. She’s prettier than me (which isn’t hard) and she writes better too! The other exciting thing about that post is that it was the 100th post for this blog, so yay, let’s celebrate!
School is almost over for me, I’ve got two more days of classes and then four finals next week. I should have all A’s, except for my economics class, which at this point I don’t even know whether or not I’m going to pass. But then after that is summer! My busyness will continue, but life will be much lighter and easier with this burden off of my shoulder. I’ve got lots of fun plans for the summer, so it shall be cool.
I also intend on updating much morer when school is at an end. It’s not that I spend a lot of time doing school work or even a lot of time at school, but the weight upon my shoulders somehow stops me from actually doing things other than lying around and not accomplishing anything.
I’ve been reading a lot lately. I love reading, but I don’t always like myself when I’m in reading mode. When I’m in reading mode every spare second I get is spent reading and not doing anything else. I read before I go to bed, I read when I wake up, I read when I eat, I read alla time. I then never end up doing things like playing video games, or watching TV (I’m at least a couple episodes behind with Lost), or surfing teh interwebz, or blogging. But yeah, reading is still cool.
I’ve started reading Star Wars novels again. I think I read my first ones back in like fourth grade or so and I instantly fell in love with the Star Wars expanded universe. I just read The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn, which many diehard Star Wars nerds consider the final trilogy of the Star Wars Nineology (I know that’s not a word, so shut up!). I am now starting to reread the Star Wars X-Wing series, which is my favorite Star Wars series. It follows Rogue Squadron, the guys who blew up a couple death stars and such. Wedge Antilles and Corran Horn are my heroes and the two Star Wars guys who I have mancrushes on. So there.
Anyway, I guess my point is that if you’re a nerd at all, especially a Sci Fi nerd or Star Wars nerd, then check out some expanded universe stuff, because there’s lots of fun stories out there. I can recommend some books if you want to know any to read. =)
On a completely different note, Iron Man was pretty incredible. I saw it twice, and it was excellent both times. The humour was well placed and actually funny instead of the far-too-corny superhero comedy you normally get. The action scenes were intense and exciting and all edge-of-your-seaty. The story moving along scenes were also all well done, the movie did not seem to move slow at any parts. So yeah, definitely go see it, it was excellent. I give it two stars and five thumbs up, or something like that.
So let’s talk about The Office… What is going on? It’s not funny any more… It’s still interesting, and I definitely haven’t given up on it. But it is incredibly awkward and depressing. Like, I don’t even know how to describe how I feel about it, because I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. It’s so depressing and awkward at some parts that when something funny actually comes up I feel guilty laughing about it. Oh, and Jim is a jerk. I still love him and consider myself most like him in the show, but he keeps being mean to Pam. It’s funny… but mean. Haha.
And that concludes our evening. I also promise that I will bring you the next part of The Best of My Bookmarks sometime before the end of the month. And I have some other ideas/projects that I will be working on, so I’ll let you know what’s up with them when the time comes.
Random Cerebral Tidbits
- Ever since I started working at an underwear / lingerie store, I’ve been thinking about boobs a lot. I’m usually very quiet and reserved, and I find it quite liberating to be able to brazenly ask a complete stranger what her cup size is. One of my co-workers insists that I’ll eventually be able to discern a woman’s exact breast size just by looking at her. Neat party trick.
- I need to become more active again. I think about wheelchair basketball players, and one-legged marathon runners, and that guy at art school who broke his leg and used his skateboard with his crutches, and I suddenly feel compelled to go out there and somehow utilize my youth and agility and healthy appendages to their full 21-year-old potential. Pole-dancing, anyone?
- I’m pretty sure I want to be cremated. I read about a body that had to be exhumed, and when it was exposed, an extremely foul and toxic odor escaped into the air and killed whoever opened the casket. I wouldn’t want to do that to anybody.
- A portion of my extended family left this evening to go visit the Philippines for a few weeks. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I’ve set foot on the motherland. I need to start saving up.
- Sometimes I wonder if I’d be a good lesbian lover. Particularly, sexually.
- My most recurring dreams / nightmares involve me being pregnant, getting into a car accident, or somehow screwing up in school.
- Existence. Has. Been. Hard. I am at a point where I feel like I am finally recovering from a terrible, terrible chapter in my life, like having been trampled by a herd of wildebeests, dragged up a tree by a leopard, and then sodomized by a rhinoceros. Time heals all things though, right?
- I need to start shopping for Mother’s Day. I want to surprise my Mommy with something awesome and impractical and unconventional and borderline useless but still really cool. Her bedroom is pretty dimly lit, and instead of garden-variety incandescent lighting, I thought maybe she should just hang this on her wall.
- Joyceline
What I Wrote While Half Asleep in Math Class Today
(Not edited at all from it’s 8am sleepiness)
I am drifting… in and out, in and out, as if my conciousness was the ocean at low tide, quietly lapping at the sand. The seagulls lazily glide around in the sunrise, gently soaring through the sunrise, seemingly mocking me and my lack of sleep. In the background of my mind, or perhaps the foreground and I’m just in the background, my math professor rambles all old-man-like, because he is an old man.
Yawn…
In real life right now, everything is blurry. Blurry rhymes with furry. I like bunnies. I think I skipped a step in that string of word associations. Funnies are blurry… That’s it, or something.
I want to be famous, like a rockstar or actor or politician. And then I want to screw up and not apologize to the world or my fans. I’ll punch paparazzi only if they deserve it. But so help me God, when they deserve it they’re going to get it.
Trying not to fall asleep… How do they expect us not to sleep through this stuff? I mean honestly, I know that I’m lazy and often too tired, but professors should be more exciting or stimulating or whatever.
Right now I’m only thinking with three brain cells, so it’s all good…
Goodnight…
Me Looking More Badass and Less Silly than Yesterday
I will have at least one more post today with some sort of comment. Perhaps The Best of My Bookmarks: Part II, we’ll see!
