misspeacock posted this, and i have to pass it on, b/c these things crack my shit up so bad.

the aeneid on facebook.

lololol.

an update. one that's not comprised of a few hundred twitter musings, that is. :}

but first, some humor: some of you know that i love someecards.com with unrestrained ferocity. if you've never been, go now. today on their user-created cards forum i found the perfect e-card for chuck bass. with a picture of a woman looking thoughtfully into an empty glass, the caption said, "i never understood economic recession until i saw a bottle of smirnoff where the grey goose should've been." aaaaand i LOLed. XD

so, somewhere over the past few weeks i decided it was time to apply to graduate school. like, actually time, not just time to think about it. i knew i didn't have time to put together a creative writing portfolio (since i don't have anything current with which to assemble one) so i decided to set my sights on something that would- gasp!- actually find me employment. (something i've found difficult thus far, as ardavana and gloriouselysium so tactfully reminded me during their radio show on my last night of classes at MHC by playing 'what do you do with a BA in english' from avenue Q... thanks guys ;)) i've always thought seriously about going to school for library science, and what with lauralyrics and my oldest family friend having gone thru simmons' library science program and unreservedly raved about it, i'm applying. best library science program in the country, wot? :D i'll be going for a masters of library science with a concentration in school librarianship, since i love YA lit and have often also considered getting certified to teach high school english. anyway. so. barring a few tiny minor obstacles (mhc won't release my transcript b/c they claim i owe them money, one of my would-be reference-letter-writers hasn't gotten back to me about whether or not he can write-- you know, trivial shit like that x__x) by the end of next week everything'll be in. quite possibly within the next few months i could actually have some FOCUS to my life! :D

oh yeah, and i'm taking the GRE next wednesday. if it wasn't for ceilidh having sent me her GRE for dummies book i'd probably be sitting under my desk gibbering right about now. >.<

so wish me luck. i think i might treat myself to 'taken' tomorrow if i can get through an entire GRE practice test tonight. good reward, i think, no? :D that's if my combination PMS-onset-of-the-flu double whammy doesn't take me out at the knees.... why, body, why do you choose to hate me at the most inopportune times in the world? -.-;;;;;

also..... anyone wishing to commiserate on bsg... i have been wholly without people to rave and flail to after the past few eps, and tonight i think i'm gonna need it. :P

i'm greatly amused by this. first of all that she chose to publish under a name that's like "o hai, have u read my fic?!1!" to anyone who's ever tripped over the HP fandom blindfolded. second, that the only real feedback this reviewer gives (apart from seconding holly black's quote on the front-- which ok, i guess it's cool to have your friends write your bylines if you can't get anyone else to do them-- not that i'm knocking holly black b/c i've met her and she's quite cool-- but anyway) is to say that the book is almost a romance novel, and essentially would be if there was sex. is that a compliment? cus i really don't think it is, lol. but then again cassie claire is no stranger to "almosts" : x-ref "i wrote almost all of draco veritas myself..." speaking as someone who wants to write fantasy and/or young adult fantasy herself, it's pretty tough to convince people that fantasy is a valid genre, but there are definitely lists of fantasy books that even hardcore critics would have to admit have literary merit. the ONLY exception to the "romance is a crap genre" generalization that i've ever heard anyone give credit to is the outlander series-- and having read them myself, i question their classification as romance novels at all, would definitely go more toward historical fiction-- but i digress. the point is, i find it hilarious that the girl who was once the talk of the HP fandom (cus whether you believe she was a plagiarist or not, she certainly was the center of everyone's gossip at one point or another) has now sauntered down into writing paranormal romance novels. i find a strange, comforting parallelism in that; perhaps it's karma, perhaps not, i'm not sure. i don't know cassie personally, so i've no idea what kind of person she is; maybe she's happy writing romance novels. but i wouldn't be. so maybe it's good i didn't waste five years of my life "writing" an epic fanfiction. now i still have some creative guns left in my arsenal. :D

ok i just have to join the chorus of OMGWTFBBQ DUMBLEDORE IS GAY???? IN CANON?@?!?!?!

*checks calendar*

no... it's not april...... whoa.

clearly it's time for me to go to bed. *thud*

omfggg sam. if you haven't seen boxofshadows go and look at it. it's a game parodying fandom as we knew it when we first got into it -- it's HILARIOUS. there are people playing parodies of pretty much all the old BNF's and it's omfg, i'm so dying laughing.

going to rochester this weekend, hopefully getting a job next week. my dad is paying my july rent and buying me a new computer which pretty much has filled up my O____O;;; factor for the next few weeks.

♥

ladies, i love us.

licia makes crossover fic an issue of human faith like only she can do. :)


saw gof again today. cried again a lot. just finished sex, lies & videotape, and now doing some more firefly. i heart 'out of gas' more than life.

"this ship'll be with you till the day you die."
"that's because it's a death trap, sir."

ALSO. in my fic travels today i found the greatest link. lindsay, this one is for you.

[and yes, you can probably expect forever now that whenever i point lindsay to a link, it'll have something to do with toads. ::cackles::]

and for everyone :

how to write like a wanker.

woo, better stop typing the way i type....................... dont want to piss anyone off now....... rox0r.!
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snape too sexy. you know it.









watching the others tonight. woo, creepy movie. also have been eating honey from the bottom of the jar with a chopstick. go me.

dinner now.