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Phoenix Miranda
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| coming out of lurk... |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|07:36 pm] |
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Well, it's about time I make an ACTUAL update post, I think.
1) I am back in Auburn. Been here for about a month. Looking for a job. Anybody who wants to hang out, or knows of any place that's hiring part-time (but mostly the former), gimme a shout.
2) Just gotta get my financial aid straightened out, and get registered for classes. Yay!
3) Really glad to be back. Well, generally. See #4.
4) For those of you who think I'm "condescending" (and I'm not saying who told me this): Fuck you all.
a) What kind of person tries to get to know someone else by asking other people, "Hey tell me about so-and-so!"? (Except for people who are trying to get a date with so-and-so and are asking his/her best friends about how to make a good impression - which is not the case here.)
b) When asked to tell someone about so-and-so, what kind of person goes, "Oh, him/her? He's/She's condescending!"
Seriously people. I don't think I'm better or smarter than you. And if you think I think that, then that's your problem. If you think I'm talking down to you personally, ask yourself why you think that. I know about some things, you know about some things. If you think I need to get schooled, do so, just don't be an ass about it. And if I see that you are more knowledgeable about something than I am (and I admit that's not hard to do) then I'll readily admit it. But if you have a problem with me, please stop bad-mouthing me behind my back. Quietly take me aside and politely tell me what you personally think my problem is (not just what somebody told you my problem is that you happen to agree with), to my face, so that if it's a genuine character flaw I can try to fix it. Or, just stop associating with me. This is the second time I've heard about people doing the badmouthing-behind-the-back thing to me, and I'm getting sick of it. And it's all within a certain group too. I had thought a lot better of them. They're starting to remind me of something I thought I'd escaped.
...Is this what getting disillusioned feels like?
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| RIP Billy Mays |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|06:27 pm] |
Billy Mays: 20 July 1958 - 28 June 2009. Really annoying (in my opinion) infomercial sales pitcher. Hypertensive heart disease (presumed).
The List is now up to 130. |
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| something that makes me twitch |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|03:35 am] |
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for sale: means that the item is available for purchase
on sale: means that the item's price has been reduced
These two phrases are used interchangeably these days, and the reason this irks me so much is because my sister inadvertently got me with it once.
There was a toy in the early-90's that I'd been saving up for (okay I'll admit it--it was a Puppy Surprise) and we were at the store (probably either Kmart or Wal-Mart), me with money in pocket to make the long-awaited purchase, and my sister came running up to me excitedly pulling at my shirt and saying that the item in question was on sale. I got excited, thinking that maybe I could buy it and have a bit left over, but when we got to the shelf it was the price it had always been. I got mad at her for making me think the price had gone down, and then I had to explain, and then she said, "What's the difference?"
Biiiiiig difference, cupcake.
I also think it's a sign of the deterioration of the language. Such a pity.
Anybody else got any language cock-ups that bug the hell out of you, or is it just me being an over-analytical dick again? |
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| RIP Dom DeLuise |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|07:54 pm] |
Dom DeLuise: 1 August 1933 - 4 May 2009
The List is now up to 126.
Mel Brooks movies shall not be the same without him. (Just as Kevin Smith's movies won't be the same without George Carlin, who's been gone for nearly a year, now.) |
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| Crack Suicide Squad |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|03:18 am] |
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They made an appearance at the very end of Life of Brian but this bit unfortunately didn't make the final cut.
Such a pity, because it's good for a giggle.
"Oh my COCK! Sheep's bladders?!!"
"Tomorrow...as a punishment...you will all eat...PORK SAUSAGES!!!"
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| The horror! |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|02:23 am] |
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If I ever start behaving like this, please...just shoot me in the fucking head!
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| Neuveritelne |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|03:20 am] |
Absolutely amazing. This takes incredible amounts of strength, balance, coordination, and trust. I mean, DAMN. (Not to mention practice time...)
This was forwarded to me by my grandfather, by the way, as an email attachment but I figured I'd better find an embeddable source for you folks.
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How many have you read? (ganked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) murgen) |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|10:22 pm] |
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The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
How do your reading habits stack up? [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 - JRR Tolkien - read a few times.
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 - read a few times.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 - read all 5 (?) of the trilogy
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 - CS 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 Meaney - 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-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 - 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’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 - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Colour 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 -- twice, in the past month because it's what I had near the dining room table
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery --AWESOME book. So cute, and so sad. This book is why the author is on French currency. As is The Little Prince.
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 --...an abridged version
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Adding some classics and other really great books that aren't listed, that I have read:
--The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
--Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
--Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Mark Twain
--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
--The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
--Around the World in Eighty Days (abridged but it's going on my To Read list) - Jules Verne
--the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
--The Diary of Anne Frank
--Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
--Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
--A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
--Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
--The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
--Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
--The Red Fighter Pilot - Manfred von Richthofen
--2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
--Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
--The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
--The Odyssey - Homer
--The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
--Ender's Game series - Orson Scott Card
--Silas Marner - George Eliot
--River God - Wilbur Smith
--Beowulf - unknown
--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
--The Princess Bride - William Goldman
--Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Current List of Things That Need Reading:
--The Three Musketeers (unabridged) - Alexandre Dumas
--The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
--The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
--A Song of Fire and Ice series - George R. R. Martin
--Dracula - Bram Stoker
--Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
--Moby Dick - Herman Melville
--The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
In Progress:
--Around the World in Eighty Days (unabridged) - Jules Verne
--The Once and Future King - T.H. White (started it years ago then misplaced the book)
--The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (slow going)
--The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (bits and pieces that were assigned in school; must finish!)
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| Definitely not a sea-kitten. |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|02:30 am] |
Continuing from my last post, after watching Weird, True, and Freaky on Animal Planet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frilled_shark
http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=frilled+shark&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=XSSZSaCjN5yGygW83_2FCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
PETA is made of FAIL.
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| Wow, I'm fucked up. |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|01:48 am] |
Conditions that I have, or had in the past:
--Growth hormone deficiency (aka pituitary dwarfism)
--Thyroid deficiency, as a side effect of growth hormone treatment, disappeared after end of said treatment
--Palilalia (repetition of one's own spoken words)
--Chewing on inner cheeks
--Picking at cuticles
--Biting nails
--Jiggling one foot
First one means I am a dwarf, even though I'm in the lower region of the normal height range.
Thyroid deficiency is in the past.
I seem to have outgrown the palilalia.
Still catch myself chewing on my cheeks and nails on occasion, though having braces helped a lot in curtailing them and I make conscious efforts not to do them.
Don't pick at my cuticles anymore.
The foot-jiggle seems to have been inherited from my paternal grandmother, and her mother.
The three before that, by themselves, can be considered nervous tics.
Palilalia is a complex tic, but not a nervous one.
And the last five can also be symptoms of Tourette Syndrome. Not saying I have it, I'm not qualified to make that diagnosis, but still...what a coincidence.
Guess I'm just a twitchy midget. |
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| HAHAHAHAHAHA |
[Dec. 23rd, 2008|12:32 pm] |
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My mom just called me a bitch.
"Geez Kassy, you're such a bitch!"
And I thought, "Gee, I wonder why?!"
Could it be...
--I'm being stifled here?
--There's nobody my age in this damn town except for April and she's been gone since day after Thanksgiving (though she's coming back today)?
--They keep making me say the blessing and I CAN'T just go "Isis, Isis, Ra Ra Ra!" and HAVE to use a Christian one?
--I really, really need to get laid?
--THERE'S NOTHING TO FUCKING DO IN THIS TOWN?!!!!
--The only job I could find only gives me 25 hours a week max, and with other expenses I might not be able to get up to AU by April unless I find another job to supplement this one, or just get one that'll give me more hours?
I mean, my Gods, I think I have plenty of reasons to be bitchy.
And why is SHE allowed to be five times as bitchy (pots-and-pans-throwing bitchy, over ME NOT HAVING THE TABLE SET BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW DINNER WAS THAT CLOSE TO BEING DONE) but I have to be all flowers and sunshine 24/7?
Fuckin' a. |
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| haircut, etc. |
[Dec. 17th, 2008|02:19 am] |
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So I got my haircut today.
( Pix! )
Also, Mom and I went to the Verizon Wireless store to not buy a phone. See, we went in to upgrade mine because my current one is nearly gone and we were about to pay for the thing, when we asked about transferring my stuff (contacts, photos, ringtones, etc.) to the new phone. They said data transfer costs $10, and ringtones don't transfer but RINGBACK tones do. And the whole reason I was going to buy a new phone in the first place was because the store at the mall said they'd only transfer my shit if I got a phone from the store. And I didn't wanna lose my ringtones. But if I'm going to lose them anyway, I might as well just use this Motorola phone that is capable of using MIDI files as ringtones, which can be uploaded onto the phone via a USB data transfer cable (which I'll need to acquire somewhere). This way I can have WHATEVER RINGTONES I WANT, GODSDAMMIT.
So. Tomorrow, hopefully before work, I'll get Mom to help me figure out how to get my number transferred between these two phones. I only need her help because she's got the login info for the online account.
...I WAS gonna post links to the Mead Bottling and Meat Pie Floater vids...but they seem to have disappeared from my FileBucket account. I will have to see if I can get Daniel to repost them. *sigh*
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