Hi.

My name is Liz.

I'm addicted to land communities.

Things that are kicking my ass:
-school
-nanowrimo
-life

I've been feeling quite depressed over it all lately. So I tested my insanity:

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

So, I don't know if you guys have heard this yet, but today might be the end of the world. I understand that sometime today CERN will be turning on the Large Hadron Collider. The test, I guess it is, will run from 0900-1800 GMT. If you live on the East Coast of the US, it should be over by 1pm, if I did that right. It will only be operating at something like 7% capacity and they aren't actually colliding anything, I think, but there is, apparently, a 0.005% chance that it will create a blackhole that will destroy the world. I looked up what could happen and it's not pretty. On the upside, it'll only take seconds.

In October, they plan to actually collide.

I'm not a scientist, in fact, I barely scraped C's in my university science classes. (I did better in high school.) This video helped me to kind of understand what it does, though. Plus, it's fun.



If they world does end: Love to family and friends. It's been great knowing all of you. If there is an other side, I hope to see you all there.

Okay, so I'm not dead, despite the fact the I didn't think that I would survive the summer. I worked two jobs. I was a bank teller Monday through Friday, and tended bar on Saturday and Sunday. Days off, never seemed to happen. When I wasn't working, I was sleeping, except for those times when my family and friends demanded my attention. I didn't sleep much at all, about four hours a night actually, at the most. 'Why did I go through all of this?' one might care to ask. Well, I wrecked my car. It's embarrassing how it happened and I'd rather not talk about it, but my insurance didn't cover it and my parents blamed my own dumb ass, so I paid for car repairs myself.

Thankfully, now it's over. I'm back in school and finally getting a break. It's my last semester. I'm graduating in December. I'm alternately freaking out over it and not giving a crap about it. My mother is no help because all she can go on about is how her baby is graduating with two degrees and pressuring me into walking in graduation so she can watch. I don't want to be forced to shake the hand of the asshole who became president of the university and I don't want to spend six hours in the cold for 30 seconds of satisfaction. I'm gonna have to do it though, because if I don't I'll never hear the end of it until one of us dies, especially around the time my brother graduates.

On a related note, my brother started college this fall. He followed me up here. Even majored in the same thing, kind of, for now at least. (He hasn't settled, but he has some time to decide.) I don't like it really. I've been told this makes me a bad sister, but it really isn't anything against my brother. He's a tooly pain in the ass, but I love him and for the most part he isn't bad to have around. My problem is that for four years this has become my home and having him here is like having my hometown (which I can't stand) invade. I'm a small town girl and being in here has made me feel more free as a person and going back is just suffocating me anymore. It's not my brother, or my family, or my friends...it's my own neurosis. If that makes sense. I hope it does.

On fandom related notes: YAY FOR NEW SEASONS!!!
- I just got to see the summer series of Top Gear and fucking loved it! If I were to start going on about it I would never stop, so I'll cut it off here before you all ignore me like my roommate did.
- The end of the fourth season of Doctor Who was wonderful and tragic. I laughed, I squeed, I cried. (And was slightly sad the Master didn't show. I should know better than to get my hopes up.)
- I just found out the Torchwood was, for sure, having a third season. I bawled at the end of season two, but I'm intrigued to see what they'll do for the third.
- I love my friend JD with all of my heart, (Dearly, but not queerly. As we say.) but I wish I hadn't let her talk about Heroes. I was steering clear of the sites to avoid spoilers, but she couldn't and she was spazzing over wanting to tell me, so I let her. So instead of having the suspense, I already know who shot Nathan Petrelli. I've also been informed of something about Sylar, that I'm not quite sure I believe...or fully understand. However, go Mohinder go!
- Chuck is coming back! Zachary Levi is so adorable when he's dorky. If I'm lucky, Adam Baldwin will be missing more clothing this season. Oo! I read somewhere that there is the possibility of a guy/guy kiss this season. I don't know who it's supposed to be, but I've reason to suspect it's Chuck and Casey. (Again, avoiding spoilers. I like good surprises.)
- The US version of Life on Mars hits the small screen on October 9th at 10pm. I can't wait to see it, but I bet I'll hate it. I might actually have to leave anime club early to catch it. I'm feeling very apprehensive about it. It just won't be the same. I bet I spend the whole thing comparing it to the UK version and it will fall horribly short.

In fic news, I'm hoping to get my creative muse back soon. I've been too worn out this summer to even really think. I have some things in the works, though.
- I started a genderswitch Death Note fic months ago, which I'm hoping finish. It features girl!Mello, oblivious!Matt, and eyerolling!Near.
- I'm trying to plan the sequel to my genderswitch Heroes fic.
- I have porn for my Torchwood/Doctor Who fic Uniforms in the works. Finger-crossed, I hope it works out.
- I have an idea for a multi-chapter crossover fic, but I'm a bit unsure about the premise. It's Life on Mars/Doctor/Torchwood (Real original, I know. :/). The idea is that the Master survived and is now in 1973 (Also real original, feel free to rag on me). There he finds Romana. Then the Rani shows up. The Torchwood team is pulled back as well. Then the TARDIS brings the Doctor to join the party. Someone is trying to collect Timelords for a sinister world-ending purpose and they're forced to work together to stay alive. Does anyone want to guess why Torchwood is there? I plan for there to be action, drama, romance, confusion, tragedy, explosions, and m-preg at least mentioned. There is conflict in my head right now over Doctor/Master and Gene/Sam(Master). I'd love to bounce it off someone if they're willing.
- Also, I will be taking prompts or requests, I really need to get back into the swing of writing, what with the graphic novel being put on hold over the summer and the creative writing class I'm taking. Feel free to shoot me one.

Good news, methinks: I've decided to quit smoking. Not right now, because I think it would be too much on me because of graduation coming up, my search for graduate schools, and the feeling that my future is hanging in the balance, but after graduation in December. I'll probably become a chronic gum chewer or lollipop sucker to resist the cravings.

There's more I want to talk about (such as the planning of my trip to the UK), but this post is long enough already, I think.

I meant to post this last week when it happened, but I got distracted and forgot, so you're hearing it now.

Have you ever been watching something and it was like a train wreck was about to happen? That's what this felt like.

Last week was spring break for us here and I ended up going back home for the week. I went to the mall 20mins away with a friend one of the first days I was home. It's a pretty rural area. On the way back we drove past a bed and breakfast. There was this guy walking the other direction. He's in full dress, kilt, jacket, little hat, high socks, and holding a set of bagpipes. He starts to pat his sides and then turns around. He's dropped something. He bends over to pick it up and all I can think is, "Oh my god, no way. Oh wow. This is going to be interesting." I shit you not, he's wearing bright orange boxer shorts. It was hysterical. I got home and immediately told my parents. My mom thinks we're weird, but my dad got a big kick out of it too.

I hope everyone had a good Saint Patrick's Day and that they didn't get into too much trouble. I would love to hear stories, though, if anyone has them. I spent mine in class, doing some schoolwork, and sleeping because I didn't get any the night before, but I did have a Guinness and wore my Dublin United hoodie to express my Irish heritage. Unfortunately, I could not, for the life of me, find my green t-shirt that has two shamrocks on it and says "Dublin Vision", but I did have my Dropkick Murphys tee that says "Shamrock and Roll". One of my professors questioned me on whether I was actually Irish. It's not my fault I'm a dirty blonde. Not all of us can be redheads. I am part English and part Cherokee Indian, as well. Who knows what the rest of my heritage is.

Which brings me to this: Does anyone know of a computer program that can organize a massive and very confusing family tree? I have been trying to put one together since I was 15, so it's been about six years. The sad thing is that I still can't get past my grandparents when it comes to full names and birth/death dates. I have been able to get some stories about my great-grandparents and a few tit-bits about my great-great-grandparents (the heritage), but I keep getting stonewalled by the older members of my family. They act like I shouldn't be bothering with it and they don't talk to me. This will be the fourth time I have made an attempt to put together a family tree and this time I'm not going to let anything stop me. I think that if I can get the birth/death dates and full names I can maybe do some research to go from there.

It's going to take a long time. Especially since it's my third huge project and I have many minor projects, as well. I know that, but I have to try.

Have some vids in celebration:

A few days ago, one of my roommates and I were sitting in the living room surfing the web on our laptops. We were doing what we usually do: sharing interesting macros and videos, "acquiring" music and other media, and, most importantly, checking to see what was new on our respective comms and forums. At one point she says to me, "Listen to this," and proceeds to read me a post on one of her forums. It's from a woman in the UK, who says that she has a friend who just got back to the UK after spending an extended period of time on my side of the Atlantic, here in the US. This friend knew of her addiction to Lucky Charms cereal and sent her boxes while they were here and even took some back for her, but now she had run out and was craving more. She said she would do anything to get someone to send her a box of Lucky Charms.

I decided to take advantage of this situation and told my roommate, 'If she can get her hands on a Life on Mars 2008 calendar for me, I will be more than happy to trade Lucky Charms for it because here in the States, I'm finding it impossible to get my hands on one.'

She laughed (like I really need a third calendar just so I can look at the pictures because I really don't use them as calendars), but said she'd reply to the post and she did.

The next day she gets a reply and she reads it to me, but it's not from the woman who made the original post. (I'm still waiting for a reply on that. I really want that calendar.) This woman knows a man who is stationed on a local military base apparently, and she said to my roommates post, 'You won't get this reference because you don't know the show, but you're roommate will find this funny.' She then tells this story that her military friend told her.

This guy on the base was on guard duty at the front gate where the automobiles drive through and he had a certain LoM sound clip that he thought would be funny to play over the speaker system every time a vehicle drove through. He got caught doing after a while and was given another couple of days on guard duty as punishment, even though, at least in my opinion and a few others opinion, it was pretty freakin' funny.

What was the clip you ask? None other than Gene Hunt yelling, "Drop your weapons! You are surrounded by armed bastards!"

Seriously, I have no idea where it came from because it should not have been there. I spent all Saturday cleaning my room, which has had stuff piling up since September. It took almost 10 hours and I took only a couple of breaks for food. I made muffins. They are delicious. I also read my new manga. It was good. I told my mom about it and she said I was just having a good day. I don't have good days, I have days that are less depressing and tiring than the others. This was weird. Especially since I was on my period. I didn't even get online that day.

I put up my $1 calendars so my room is covered in cars now. It's so pretty. *sighs*

I got Scissor Sisters and Sara Barielles CD's. I just love Scissor Sisters. I have listening to them almost non-stop.

My computer was broke from Sunday until about four hours ago. I tried to fix it with my sonic screwdriver, but it didn't work. I had to call my mom at work to get one of her IT guys to help. It's better now.

I lost all that energy though. I've done just about nothing but sleep Sunday and Monday. I watched some movies. I just bought the Red Curtain Trilogy, so I watched Moulin Rouge and Romeo & Juliet. I haven't got to Strictly Ballroom yet. Then Excess Baggage and Spaceballs was on TV and I put in PotC3 with my roomies.

I think I'm going to go back to bed in a bit actually, I have class in a few hours.