Imaginary Gardens

You'll never guess what I did today! I did stuff! I actually did something and that Something was accomplished!

( It involved bureaucracy. )

Today is - or rather was, by the time I get this posted - my brother's birthday. Even though he's way over in far off lands currently struggling with the snowpocalypse, we celebrated the traditional way - food (chocolate mousse whatwhat!) and booze. Well, we called him, too. He's 33 now, which makes me feel so, so old. In less than 3 years, I'm going to be 30. I can't even begin to imagine what I want my life to be like by then. I can't even get myself out of this rut, it seems. They say all states are temporary, but damn it if they don't feel permanent when you're living them. But damn it, I CAN HAS HOPE. AND OOMPF. MORE THINGS WILL GET DONE!

In other news, I CAN HAS SUPERNATURAL TOMORROW. There is much joy over this.

Oh, and you can totally tell from the Links of the Day that I haven't posted them in ages. It's more like Monster Links of the Week, and I mean Scary Evil Big Monster. And fear its mate, the Tag Monster!


Meme: Good Things via emberald_embers ( Read more... )

Quotes of the Day: gregirlbeast, here

I think I'm very probably that deluded prostitute who tells everyone that she's actually an actress.

schrodi_kitten, here

As someone who just played through Mass Effect 2, I have this to say:

It is absolutely our destiny as humans to travel to the stars, to explore the vastness of space and discover the wonders that await us.

And we should do this while armed to the goddamned teeth.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Hyman G. Rickover, quoted in The New York Times, 3 November 1986

...Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.*


After much freaking out and "I cannae do this, Captain!" I managed to call the guy from FAO about volunteerships and internships. I stuttered a bit, shook a bit more, and finally managed to speak. He, on the other hand, sounded like the most wonderful person ever. He basically told me to go the usual route with the forms and stuff, but he told me about two other agencies that do similar work and also provided his email so I could forward him my application. So \o/ on that.

I then went and had lunch with Willy, and there was much squee and joy. It was pretty hilarious how I was high on caffeine and sociality and saying how I was miserable with the biggest grin on my face. Oh brain, you so weird!

And continuing our nightly tradition of anxiety dreams, or nightmares, I had another one! About having two buckets full of water and trying to move fish out of one, realizing that the big fish were eating the small ones so panicking even more about taking the fish out, then realizing that the big bucket I was holding the two buckets in has a mother-lovin' baby crocodile in it and then the bucket I'm holding is practically churning with little crocodiles and there's a tortoise over on the side.

I'm going to recover from today's madness - yes, it's 4 pm and the day can be over now, thanks - and watch Lost. Then I have to pull myself together enought write a few emails expressing my condolences because holy shit, y'all, violence in Nairobi to people I know. Willy just told me what happened and it's really, really bad.


Links of the Day:

Lost: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Dollhouse: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - Icons

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Icon Post - 79 Icons

Apart from the above icons (which were a pain, because the whole thing was filmed in blue tones), I've done sweet fuck-all today. Woke up at 1 pm (went to sleep at 4 am), read some fic, walked a tad, cooked for the first time all week and...yeah.


Links of the Day:
kaiyote's Supernatural Fanvid Invincible - Castiel is a BAMF.
YouTube's Ventriloquist Paul Zerdin on Late Night with Jerry Springer


* Lucian, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Today I got a new wheel for my bike, knitting thingies for a new project (stuffed elephant, as a gift), spent aaaages trying to knit (undoing, redoing, rinse-and-repeat) and wrote some postcards, although gods know hwhere the post office is And...yeah. Today's been pretty meh.

Yesterday we had a house-meeting, so we call had dinner together and discussed how to be clean and considerate. It was nice. I then watched Dog Soldiers (thanks to fallen_iceangel, as yes, it is awesome) and Supernatural (hi-larious in the extreme). I also practiced some chords on Betsy, at which I sucked.

Alright, enough filler postage, have some links as I wander off to watch Underworld 3

Quotes of the Day: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.

Elayne Boosler (stand-up comedian)

Men and women perceive crime TOTALLY differently. Once when I was walking in New York with a boyfriend, he said, 'Gee, it's a beautiful night. Let's go down by the river.' 'What? Are you nuts? It's midnight; I'm wearing jewelry; I'm carrying money; I have a vagina with me... Tomorrow, I'll leave it in my other pants. Then we'll go down.'

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* David Abrahansen quotes