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I don't normally do New Years Resolutions (in part because my changing years line up much sharper with my birthday and the school year than the calendar), but I have put together the right pieces of one for this year, and I'd love for you to help.

There are 125 stations on the T (not counting silver line or commuter rail). I wanna take pictures of myself at all the stations! And it would be even better if I took pictures of myself-and-a-friend at all the stations!

Throughout the year, I would love to hang out with you and go on a Journey To A T-Station with you sometime. Doesn't have to be a long adventure --an hour or two, here or there. We could ride the T to them, or bike, or walk or even take the ferry to one or two.

But this is the official "I'm gonna start thinking about this" post, and if you're interested in being in one of my T-station-selfies, please let me know! Especially if you have a particular stop in mind that you love.

(And if I'm visiting your non-Boston town, I will _absolutely_ fill whatever eventual Flickr gallery I make with photos of your subway stations too! But I'm not gonna count those ones up)

~Sor
MOOP!

I am writing these words on a little black thinkpad I have decided to call Melody Clementine Verandern. She runs linux! Which took me _fucking forever_ and required _four other people_ to actually make happen.

(I will try hard to write up an actual explanation and put it on the internet, mostly out of potential use for other people, but long-story-short, there was one little thing to change that no one ever mentioned to change and on Austin's advice to change we tried it and bam! Yayyyyy I hate computers and I do not understand why I have decided to do this to myself.)

Anyways, I name electronics after fictional women I like, and I name computers with German words, so that's where it came from. Melody is Mell Kelly's given name, Clementine is from the best books I read as a substitute, and Verandern is the German word for "change".

(Okay Kat, but Clementine is even more disasterADHD than you are and Mell is literally insane? Yes, this is going to be a very exciting computer. I am looking forward to mixing Clementine's introspection and awareness of herself, and Mell's easygoing nature and get-shit-done attitude. I regret absolutely nothing here).

The next few days are going to be Very Exciting as I do things like...gosh, literally everything. It's been something like eight months since I last had a working laptop of my very own, and this is a new hardware (why are the fn and ctrl keys wrong? why can't I pinchzoom the touchpad?) and a _brand_ new OS (I know absolutely nothing about linux) and there's a LOT to do. Hopefully this will be a fun way to keep myself busy, and not an agonizing slog.

Here's a todo list:

*I'm putting this first because a lot of the later things depend on it - I need to figure out how to make my backup drive from the previous computer talk to this one. Previous computer was a mac, and the beautiful automatic time machine backups worked *great*! I can plug the drive into Ezri's mac and see all my shit. If I plug the drive into this machine, so far I get a complete lack of folders where there should be a lot of folders. Research will occur!

*Once I can speak backup I'M GONNA HAVE ACCESS TO ALL MY MUSIC AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely that gets that many exclamation points, fight me. It's been ages, I have had to survive with solely what is currently stored on my phone. Of course now I have to choose some sort of music library software and learn how that works, yayyy oh gods. All I know is that iTunes has gone downhill with every version since aught-five, and fuck cloud-based storage solutions, I want to actually own my music.

*Back up my phone? Yeah, there's a lot of things I'm willing to do with the work computer, but this is not one of them. My fellytone does not get plugged into the work lappy, which means...yeah. Eight months, huh.

*Start fuxing with photos. I have a huge photo library and tons of time on my hands because ~pandemic~. Maybe I can work to combine these two things and start posting more photos or whatever.

*Download GAMES! Steam is an absolute must, as is whatever will get me access to Heroes of Might and Magic 3. (I own a copy from GoG, I just need to figure out the install instructions). For extreme bonus points (lol, not happening), figuring out how to get a copy of Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House would be _very_ cool of me.

*A whole lot of configuring work to make the keyoard do my fucking bidding. This absolutely must be possible, that's the whole damn point of linux. How do I have multiple workspaces? How do I quickly hotkey into them? How do I switch between programs and between tabs? ALL OF THIS IS SOLVABLE.
(ETA: I have since at least figured out how to switch between workspaces. it's a start!)

*"All of this is solvable" is hopefully going to be my motto going forward. But I'm also still leaving space for the idea that I do this for a month, say "that was a great adventure" and install back to windows. I'm not daft, I know that I am not actually a computer person, and that at my core I just want a box to do the things I ask it to. I also have literally no idea what anything means in terminal, and that's gonna be a pretty steep learning curve. Hopefully I am more looking forward to it than fearing it.

Gosh, I can actually start saving my words on the regular again.

...I can start a BehindtheWalls file again. That's...that's been a while.

So the moral of this story is...I'm happy. I'm going to have an adventure. There is going to be a _lot_ of screaming in my future. Advice is very _very_ welcome, including just straight up recommended reading suggestions --xubuntu 20.04, which I've already discovered looks different from regular ubuntu.

Have a good day, my lovelies.

~Sor
MOOP!

My brain is beginning to get WAY overfull, so here is my todo list.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
*Finished the rough draft of the Pinewoods Gazette
*Sent to The Editors
*Texted roommates asking if they've seen my camp cup (I will be _so bummed_ if I've lost it)
*Six hour school training (two more tomorrow and wednesday)
*Make crew buttons for ESC
*Ordered more meds
*Ordered some movers
*Checked in with the printers about stuff

( ToDo list. It's uh...it's a lot, in most senses of the word )

Okay. Nice deep breath. I think that really does help.

Now, tomorrow morning I need to shower, eat breakfast, and pack a lunch before going off to school-meeting. So, uh, I _really_ need to go to bed basically now so that I get a reasonable amount of rest before work. Six whole hours it sounds like, woooooo*sob*.

I hope y'all are well.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Look. What is that?
It's PIZZA. I was going to warm it and eat it later, everybody does that. That's normal! You are LOOKING for things to complain about!
And what are these?
....wasps.

Yes of course I did that from memory. There are certain brain touchstones that _do not go away_.

Brain ebbs and brain flows. Right now, I'm in a good space. More worrisome, I'm on day two or three of a good space, which means my entire life is going to come crashing down like day after tomorrow.

On the plus side I got put on another therapist's waiting list, and I have an appointment on Monday for potential intake/placement. Whee! And I have most of the next two weeks essentially off, which means I'm gonna have fuckall ability to get shit done, of course, because no routine.

Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm being depressed or realistic and it's annoying as hell.

Anywho, a quick todo list for the next few days:
TMC minutes, Pinewoods costuming and packing, apply for all the jobs, maybe work some? Work on my room for suresies. I should probably make some Active Effort on getting my place into some semblance of livable --I'd like to have access to a desk again (especially because then I could reinstate the rule where I'm not allowed to use the lappy in bed which might be good.)

What else...

Last night's dance was _really good_. It was solely dances from books 1-3, which means among other things we got to do the SCD version of the Virginia Reel. (People get annoyed by this sort of thing, which means I go up to both the teacher and the teacher-coordinator and explicitly anti-complain about having weird historical stuff to try).

There were some other really (physically) hard dances too, and the whole thing ended off with Mari's Wedding. This is great, except that my legs hurt and I have a billion hours of squares and rounds today and then highland tomorrow. I look forward to continuing to torment my body (I should do my pushups).

I have made a new friend! It's a new internet friend, which is the _best kind_. His name is Quads (well okay, technically it's something about quadrilaterals, but I started calling him Quads and then he changed his nick to match so I'm going with it) and he's into musical theatre and used to dance. I met him through the most recent incarnation of The Pie Shop, which let me tell you it is so important to my brain to have access to an IRC-like, apparently. Not enough for me to actually get into IRC (because honestly, at least half of the desire is a place to chill with mek), but having a general chatroom to harass people and the like is great.

I should really get into Slack, shouldn't I?

I've also _finally_ put together my Dreamwidth friends list, so I can actually come read over here. This is a good thing! This means I'ma read LONG FORM BLOGGING! And then maybe someday I will comment on LONG FORM BLOGGING and even get more people to do it, damnit.

Dunno. Not too much else to say, but glad to be saying things. This has been a bad year for writing AND LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEPRESSION GETTING WORSE AND NOT WRITING NOPE.

Hearts and stuff.

~Sor
MOOP!

Scheduled Goals for today:

*Eat breakfast, brush teeth and hair, read my comics, the usual morning stuff.

*Round about 11ish, head over to Laura's to work on our teaching schedule and dance programs for the next two months at SCD Cambridge Class (Come dance with us!).

*Get to the Harvard Bridge ideally around 1ish, but defnitely before 2 in order to watch the MIT Moving Day Charles Crossing Competition, which sounds like it's going to be super entertaining. Also to potentially hang out with Eric, who is my work bestie's bff and a generally good dude. He does not have a value label¹ yet.

*In the late afternoon to evening, go hang out with my sir for a date because we haven't had one in weeks and weeks and I need company right now.

*Ignore every one of the eighty-seven party invites I've gotten (what the hell this weekend?) because again, date with sir. Who is my best friend. And who I haven't gotten good snuggle time in forever. Which I really really fucking need.

Unscheduled Goals for today/this weekend:

*Wash my hair, oh gods, it needs it so bad.

*Maybe go to REI and run REI errands like obtaining rain pants and more/better panniers?

*Yesterday I went through Schoolspring and found 8(ish) job postings that sound like they wouldn't completely suck, now I need to actually apply for all of them. My depressed goal is to see if I can get to 40 applications before I hear back from any of them, my realistic goal is to average one application per week until I get hired or take up substituting again.

Yeah, I'm gonna be really kinda dark about this for a while. I'm feeling rejected and inadequate, and like I'm not actually good enough for my chosen career field. I loved my workplace, I loved so much about it and I feel heartbroken that they don't want me to stay.

*Grade the last class worth of tests I have. Prep for Monday. Outline the week/week-half courselet I promised my 11th graders about necessary math for the real world. Remember that just because I'm not coming back is no excuse to either burn this professional bridge or deny my girls a good education.

*I'd say clean my room, but this is another weekend where I'm going to be staying largely out of the house, and so that's really just not happening. I will try and build in some tiny, inadequate, 20/10s over the coming week, but of course that's not going to happen.

Good plan, self.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: See, in high school there was Light Eric and Dark Eric, and it would've just ended there and not been a funny joke if I hadn't gone away to Boston and met an Eric who was *already* labeled as Darker! Like, I didn't even have to assign it to him! So this Eric needs to be put onto the lightness spectrum somewhere.

Crossposts: http://kdsorceress.livejournal.com/743021.html

This is my summer ToDo list.

See, I worked through the numbers and found that the number of days from the first of July to the last of August, minus Pinewoods, half for the days I'm working summer school, is 43. So I shrugged, and decided sure, 43 is the number of things to get done this summer.

(I am actually giving myself from memorial day to labor day for these things, because this is meant to be a summer ToDo, and despite what the weather says, summer is more than just two months.)

To write down these 43 things, on looseleaf folded in half (goal goes on one half, progress gets written on the other)) takes seven pages. My original idea was to post them up by my desk or something, but lord know, there's no way it'd all fit. It's pretty functioning as is though, with a folder to stuff it all into.

Besides, I like the secrecy --and my room is not entirely secret¹. In the interest of that secrecy, as well as potentially saving face from when I fail the entire list entirely, I'm not going to post the actual list of goals just now², but below the cut is the list of tags --one unique word for each goal, to identify them when the papers are folded over.

( tags! )

Realistically, if I finish a third of them, I'll feel pretty damn impressed with myself. I am not so organized or focuses as to actually make good on my dreams. And if, by some strange force of will, finish them all? I'm gonna buy myself one hell of an ice cream, because damn I'll deserve it.

~Sor
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1: I would like a secret room, but I like more not having to spend a long time deliberating whenever I have houseguests about whether I should let them in or not. Someday I will live in a space with two rooms (real rooms, my little back porch is miserably uninsulated and therefore _really_ does not count) and it will be lovely.

2: Well, not here. If you've a long memory for my other journals, you might find that I've stuffed it in some other corner of the internet for safekeeping.

Cryptic PostScript: No, I totally didn't notice until I was typing this entry. Shaddup, sometimes I am bad at this sort of thing.

Crossposts: http://kdsorceress.livejournal.com/661577.html

TO WRITE/FINISH WRITING:

*List of songs that meant a lot in 2011
*List of journal entries that are actually worth reading from 2011
*Yuletide story
*Secret other fanfic exchange pinch hit story
*Secret other fanfic exchange I-have-nothing-to-do-with-this-but-I-have-an-*idea* story
*Dante, first draft
*Talkin' 'bout work
*An updated version of my wantlist
*Doc Scratch -or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Homestuck
*A discussion of writing (noun and verb) on myself
*Eight hundred thousand ADB posts, but notably: dancing C1/2, learning both roles, and why "The Country Bumpkin" is the Best Dance Ever

TO MAKE/FINISH MAKING:

*Secret craft project LS:FiM
*Secret cosplay project T:AG
*Secret cosplay project HaaH:A
*Like, four hundred pieces of fanart for Tailsteak
*Including that one where I have to bring a slinky dress to Chicago, apparently?
*Christmas present for Dad
*Christmas present for Nik
*A thing for that thing tonight

TO DO/FINISH DOING:

*Clean my room
*Pack for Chicago
*Apply to the Boston Teacher Residency
*Find a job that doesn't make me want to murder everyone
*Put my bookshelf into my room proper, ohmygod, it's so _simple_ and it solves everything man I'm dumb.

That seems good for now.

~Sor
MOOP!

Crossposts: http://kdsorceress.livejournal.com/617147.html

CURRENT PROJECTS
(This list is by no means comprehensive or interesting. Mostly it's an attempt for me to keep track of what I'm working on, and how it's going. This will be put somewhere near toppost at some point, or something like that. At the very least, it's going in the permalinks.)

Living
Current Space: ~~Consolidate stuff~~; Laundry; Make up a better bed
The Empty City¹: Fill closet with stuff I eventually want to be mine; Help mom in all ways; Unpack guest room books. --All on hold until I get back to Chi-town, probably for Mom's birthday
Summer Space: Find a place to sublet for July, August --Talking to Tracy's housemate initiated, awaiting response
Fall Space: Find a place to live for September, etc --Working with Nurit and Genni; Potentially find a fourth roommate --Awaiting decision on place to confirm necessity

Jobs
Babysitting Potential of nannying for M²; potential of babysitting H and R; --contact relevant parents; potentially babysitting M¹; potentially tutoring M¹ --contact relevant parents
Housecleaning E-mail Rick schedule to work a time out
Donating my Brain and Body to Science Check Harvard psych lab for studies; check other Harvard psych lab for studies; continue to debate pros/cons of donating eggs; continue to debate pros/cons of sleep studies; investigate eligibility for sleep studies
Teaching --Currently on hold while awaiting license confirmation; nothing I can do to speed it currently; Search job openings in school systems: Somerville, Watertown, Boston, Allston, Medford, Arlington, Malden²
Tutoring E-mail Currclick guy; E-mail Mr. Smith

Being a REAL adult
Insurance Get medical insurance; Get some sort of eyes coverage; Get home/renters insurance at some point; get non-car owner's driving insurance; Talk to mommio about what else is necessary and what I can bum off the family.
Driver's License -- MA Awaiting confirmed address in state of MA; have like three years to do this
ZipCar Investigate necessary materials; Get on that

Creative
Machine of Death Type what I've got; Write a comprehensive story; submit story; panic
Month at the Museum Video; Essay; Application packet; Panic
Secret Project #MWBS1 Write 500-1000 word chunk; send; Panic
Various and Sundry Story Projects There is nothing I have been working on for myself. This is terrible and needs to be fixed
750Words Write a total of half the days in July --that's only sixteen days. Seriously, how is this hard, Sorky?
Ambidance Boston Write and post anything;

Internet Fun!
Rob and Elliot
RSS Reader 1000+ items --read them!
Google+ Fuck around with it further; send feedback whenever I have an idea or complaint

Other Stuff on My Mind
Tattoo --Awaiting completion of medical insurance; Find legitimate and highly regarded studio, debate pros/cons of just traveling down to Great Southern to get it done; Find good art; Compose justification for when Sha inevitably asks why I got a tattoo somewhere I couldn't see it
Pinewoods Create packing list; pack; ~~find pretty dress~~; Panic, panic, PANIC!; argue with shoes until they are suitable; cash check; write nice letter afterwards; relax and enjoy myself; panic
Dragon*Con Figure out how and when I'm getting there --Dependent on finding teaching job, above; Put together pieces of Ash costume; Find Ash hat; Find green fingerless glove³

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Now in Chicago!
2: Cambridge is intentionally not on this list, but if you have other suggestions for "not too hellish a (public transit) commute from the Porter/Davis area of Somerville" I'm open to hear them.
3: Yes singular. If you have one that you can get rid of, I'd like it. Ideally the left, but I wouldn't say no to the right. This is because I am hardcore.

Crossposts: http://kdsorceress.livejournal.com/599309.html

Clean all the things, damnit. Dear stuff I have to get done: Oh, it is *on*.

So, this post is my post to keep coming back to today, so that I have a list of things that I have actually accomplished. Whee!

STUFF ACCOMPLISHED TODAY:

*Took one of my few remaining emergency Concertas, figuring even placebo effects would help today
*Brushed my hair
*Braided my hair (albeit badly, it's hard to divide it right)
*Completed the first draft of my essay (stitching paragraphs together)
*Completed the second draft of my essay (cutting said paragraphs to fewer than 500 words)
*Sent copies to mom and Sparr for betaing
*Half-completed the third draft of my essay (based on Sparr's suggestions, still waiting for mom)
*Found my copy of "Sirens", which has been missing since I got to MD (I thought I left it in the car to Balticon, despite that not making sense)
*Eat breakfast¹
*Script movie
*Finish getting my essay beta'd
*Final draft of essay
*Real final draft of essay (with dad's thoughts too)
*Wrote 750words!
*Beta script
*Rescript movie
*Beta application (via mom)
*Format application
*Print application
*Ate dinner
*Print essay
*Shoot movie
*Take headshot for MatM application
*Sound for movie
*Edit movie
*Burn DVD(s)
*Test DVD(s)

STUFF TO STILL ACCOMPLISH ~~TODAY~~TOMORROW:

( Ohgod. Is boring )

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Or rather, am in the process. Also, these are the worst eggs I have made for myself in like...four years. I'm very disappointed. I blame the lack of cheese in the house, and probably not actually using enough Teriyaki sauce.

2: None of you are actually reading this. Know how I can tell? Because I don't have half a dozen comments (or even one!) telling me I forgot to close my italics tag. Colour me traumatized, except this is a hells boring entry.

TODO:

Wash a load of laundry
Put laundry and clothes for this weekend into the child snatching bag
Put Vera and her cord in her laptop bag
Grab Lazarus, a water bottle, and the pocket-things and put them in crates or pockets
Retetris the car so that everything fits, including the child snatching bag and the laptop bag.

None of these things I can do until tomorrow. I'm DONE! FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and one more thing to do:

Drive to Boston. Leave Columbia as even a temporary residence forever. I am on VISITATION RIGHTS ONLY with this gods forsaken paragon of suburbia!

...in 30 hours or so, anyways.

~Sor
MOOP!

1532:
Managed to cull the hats into the things I actually regularly wear. Even though it breaks my heart to do such a thing, since I do love my hats, quite dearly. Also, I really need to start doing the mom thing more often, and wearing a backwards ball cap --I have two perfectly good ones. (Would have three if I hadn't lost my Sweeney Todd one like an idiot)

At any rate, that's one of the two really hard clothing things done. Next up...shoes, and those don't squish *nearly* as well.

1619:
NO I DID NOT GET DISTRACTED BY ALYS PLAYING EVERQUEST WHATEVER MADE YOU THINK THAT HAHA

1651:
So, a little bit of exploration re: that bacardi commercial I posted has led me to discover the fun that is Matt and Kim. I'm still sitting at three songs --the ones they've got official music videos-- but I like what I hear. Getting my hands on their album is a must; I keep putting on Daylight to clean to, and dancing around like an idiot instead. It's *very* fun.

Also, I mean, they strip down. In the middle of Times Square. In winter. For a Music Video.

What can I say, I'm a little bit of a sucker for girls who don't shave their armpits. Unshaven legs I can take or leave, but please leave the hair under the arms, it is totally lovely.

((yes, I am a little bit of a freak sometimes))

1700
Also, it bugs me when people whine about musicians selling out. If Matt and Kim hadn't sold out by having their music in that commercial, they would have one less fan who enjoys their stuff and would be willing to go see them play live, if they came anywhere near Boston. (Though I am looking for excuses to go to New York...)

Plus, selling out = enough money to eat and make more music that you'll enjoy. Or whine about. Whichever.

(I am not actually a music fan, just a person who listens to music sometimes and likes it.)

1701
RIGHT WORKING RIGHT!

1719
Notetoself: Don't read YouTube comments. duh.

1724
I have a lot of zip ties, and am not really sure why this is. Also, I'm rapidly approaching the point where I need an actual tool bag for myself, fucking *glee!* even if I lost my totally awesome knife damnit damnit

1736
Seriously, making a cohesive list of everything left I had to pack was a really quite clever idea. Well done, Miss Kyress¹. NOW DO THE THINGS ON THE LIST!

1738
Notetoself, do a Sorky² vocab sheet sometime. Need to have on it: Pumpkin Time, some names of mine, Milk Crates, ponies and monkeys, other things I say a lot, fwen. Similar to my acronyms cheat sheet.

1755
RIGHT THAT WAS AN INTERESTING YET POINTLESS DIVERSION. Back to the accounts.

1805
I do not know what is up with my left hand these days. It just insists on baubles --doesn't feel right without three rings and some bracelets, or something equally warped. WHY DO YOU SO WANT FRIVOLS, SELF?

1816
Also, judging by dad's tentative plans, I have less than forty-eight hours left in Maryland. BOOYAH!

1817
Things I need to do during the daylight hours tomorrow: Return Larry's sound equipment, go to the post office and send presents to people. NTS: Make sure I have addresses. Also, bank. Also, at some point I need to order my birthday present for myself.

1822
Hmm, wonder if the package center is hiring. It would certainly ensure that I actually get all my mail when it comes, and not, oh, in mid summer for packages sent in march. *rars at Lesley*.

((Those cookies were still delicious though!))

1840
The beginning of "Board of Governors" from Jekyll and Hyde always sounds a bit like the music from The Weakest Link to me. More cracktastic artists than myself (or at least, more familiar with the J&H secondary characters) would be drawing this. "Henry Jekyll, you are....THE WEAKEST LINK. GOODBYE!"

...Hyde would like it to be know that he doesn't approve.

1843:
..........ohmygods, Henry Jekyll/Herbert West. They can try to out 'scientist' each other. It'll be all delightfully sociopathic and WONDERFUL. Both of them are all like "It's for a good cau-AUG MY LIFE IS BEING RUINED SHIT SHIT!"

Yes, I know there's only like one person out there who'll appreciate this, but whatever. THAT'S REASON ENOUGH TO POST IT!

1848:
......does that make Hyde Dan? Because...no. Not at all. I'd say maybe Hyde corresponds to West, but Hyde's a lot less concerned with results. Arg and damnation.

1907
HA! I SAY HA! TAKE THAT SHOES! YOU ARE NO MORE A PROBLEM!!!

((That's how I know I'm a chick. Seriously, I have way too many shoes to ever be a boy.))

1927
It's always nice when this project looks doable, instead of "oh god oh god"

2004
Iiiii don't want to do the rest of this. Like, at all. Someone come pack for me?

2012
Still left to sort through/deal with: Notebooks?, Blank papers, Presents, Writing stuff, Wearable clothes, Laundry, Props box, Electronics, Business Cards, Pocket Stuff, Desk

Still left to pack: Photos, Weaponry, Jewelry stuff, Jewelry, Buttons, Love letters, Food, Top of Dresser, Legos?

ARGSAUCE!

I should just post this, and have more entertaining bits and pieces later or something.

~Sor
MOOP!

Postscript: Found my diary. Yay!

1: This is totally the Katters' fault, as are many of my names (See: "Sor") The first time I ever heard her pronounce "Sorcyress" she was doing so with a k sound for the c, rather than the s sound I'd been using. It's...a thing that I split names down the middle (also her fault) so I chose to shift the name from Sor Cyress (Pronounced Sigh-ress)to Sor Kyress. (Kai-ress).

2: Pretty much the same as reasons stated above.

ToDo List:

*Call work on Saturday to find out when I'm working next week
*Make a Booty Chest uniform to wear as a hall costume at Balticon
*Reply to Jesse, Tricia, Newt
*Cook something for dinner. Real mac and cheese, maybe? I'd have to buy ingredients, methinks.
*Work more on unpacking and whatnot
*Harass Veronica sometime, find out when more Buffy can happen.
*Take apart my fabulous green wench skirt in order to make it into a pattern in order to make more fabulous skirts.
*Run that last load of laundry

I'm sure there are other things, but they are probably boring. Like these, only moreso.

I like that I always feel quite on top of things and ready to accomplish just everything ever when I get home for the summer, and then promptly forget about it all about a week later.

~Sor
MOOP!

THINGS TO DO TODAY:

~~Shower~~
~~Eat something (Ideally more than just "the rest of that small bag of chips")~~
~~Go on secret mission. Secret mission things.~~
Call mom, happy mother's day
Call my clone, happy fucking birthday, nyah nyah, you're old.
(Finish that story)
CREPES!
Study Maths
Sleep.

OPTIONAL:
Packmore?

~Sor
MOOP!

Four years ago today, it was again 2005. And I was having one of the very few dreams I've had that I thought were worthy of being a story somehow.

At the end of the dream, just before I was woken up, the basic storyline was that I was the 16-17 year old daughter in a family of three. I had a younger brother who was about...8ish? maybe younger. And an older "brother" who was about 20 and a vampire. He was going downstairs one night and I saw that he had turned translucent (apparently vampires turn translucent when their indoors and hit by moonlight) and I was trying to remember what you said to vampires in the moonlight to make them dissapear.

I did, but by this point he was out of the moonlight. He was effectivly trapped though since the stairs were completely moonlit and I was just waiting for him to step out of the dark.

Unfortunately, the vampire story market was saturated long before the Twilight mania of the last year, making me slightly reluctant to work on this one. It was meant to be set in Colonial times, though, and I very like the idea of a vampire who is unmasked by the moon. Despite the length of time since I had the dream, I still remember a lot of details --I cast herb magiks to defend my younger brother from my older, things like lines of salt across doorways and the interiors of rooms, for instance. I don't think I was specifically magikal in the dream, just aware of a lot of the old wives tales that actually worked.

I wish I could better recall the phrase I needed to say to banish him --I think it boiled down to "Vampire go home" and would certainly only work when he was revealed by the light of the full moon.

~Sor
MOOP!

(Apropos of nothing, this was the first XYAT that I had significant trouble picking which entry to do. The runner up was probably me asking what the best musical I'd never seen was. Four years later, and I've seen four of the five musicals mentioned. I think my new list is topped by Title of Show and Evil Dead.)

Some thoughts:

*Working on a big resolutions from last year and for this year and lots of trustbabble post

*Phones and the way I use them is on my mind right now

*So, whenever I was last trawling the Comics Curmudgeon hardcore, which I think was back during the summer (possibly even *early* summer) I started reading this blog that got linked in there at some point. Today, I learned that the author is the dad of one of my friends from high school. Um...yeah. The world is small sometimes.

*I'm gonna start a commune

*I kinda want to do a "best of 2008" posts thing

*OHSHIT! My secret livejournal project that I was going to work on for 2009! I'll post that in a minute.

*Still need to figure out how I'm getting to and sleeping at the Dance Flurry in February

*Dancing is cool. I like what Larry said about being a historical dance group that doesn't particularly like historical music. This has led me to begin¹ finding songs in my collection of generally modern stuff that are danceable. Most recent additions are a handful of Who Killed Amanda Palmer songs --"Runs in the Family" and "Ampersand" are waltzs (though the former is far too fast to actually dance to), "I Google You" is a blues, and "Guitar Hero" is a really good one-step.

*I like that spellcheck thinks danceable is a word.

*I should be entertaining to Swing somehow, but my brain is a little bit out of social, which is why I've been playing on the internet for some time anyways.

*My nails are longer right now then they've been just about ever. On the one hand, that makes 'em really good for scritching people. (From the New Year's Party-- "Kat, I love my wife, but you've made me realize her one big flaw --she doesn't have nails!") but on the other, I'm going slightly insane having them so long, and am going to bite them all short probably before I even make it back to Boston for Arisia.

And I'm sure there are more things on my mind, but I think I'm out for now. Byeee!

~Sor
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1: Okay, truth is I've been doing this for a year or two. But I had another push of going "oh!" today.

Bytheway, happy new years and I am still alive, as are Kat and Swing. The jury is still out on Magus, who may have the plague¹.

Things that have been happening:

Watching some Black Books
Watching the entire internet at the party
Playing Agricola²
Watching the end of season two of Titus
Watching almost all the rest of Middleman⁴
Me working on a general "these were the resolutions of 2008 that I ignored, and here, have some resolutions for 2009 that I will ignore.

Annnnnndyeah. Now it is time for me to go to work. This is incredibly lame, though at least there are lovely people who ought to be around when I get home. Unless they die. Which would really really suck. So, uh, dearhearts, don't die, it will make me a sadKat.

In other news, yay, it's been a year for me and that pretty girl who I snog on occasion. Good for us!

~Sor
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1: No, he does not really have the plague. I tend to be wildly exaggeratey about things like that.

2: Dan4th, Dan4th, Dan4th, if you are reading this, get this game. *Totally* get this game. Get this game, and Magus³ and I will totally come over and play with you. Because ohmgods, it is a strategery game that I actually enjoy.

3: Once he recovers from the plague

4: (Middleman!)

Things from today:
Itty-bitty scene kids
Totoro's!
The world is full of suck
I gave blood!!!
Bethity Beth is awesome
Across the Universe -- "we got bored of the plot, so we're now going to smoke a lot of pot and script the next half hour --whatever we write, we keep!"

Things to do tomorrow:
Shower
Eat something
SHOW
Go to Jere7my's still-unnamed house
???
Profit!

Other things on my mind
The song 'S****!¹ said Dance'
How much rape sucks
I really hate hormone cycles. I also hate learning how they work
NTS: Kill WookieNick for dragging me on stage during bows.
I need to start using Hiveminder better. Also, iCal.
Is anyone interested in me posting my grand list of all the status messages I've put up on Adium in the last five weeks?

~Sor
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1: (Everyone got your dice ready?) S****! is my spelling of Satan. Because if you only imply it, it doesn't count. Also, it took me ten rolls.²

2: Dude, I don't even know how to explain it. It's a gamer thing that peaked with Origins '04. You were either there and annoyed with me for bringing it up, or you weren't and are confused.

Yay, I am leaving on Friday and going HOME! (Real Home!)

Things I need to do before eleven o clock on Friday:

Find:
*My copy of the first Sluggy megatome. It's somewhere in the house, it HAS to be. Rar. (Not going to say where this was in order to avoid undue drama. Oops.)
*My gold fishnets. See above note. Idea: Check Aly's room, laundry. :P (Was in the laundry room)
*My drivers permit. Like, hellafind, since they won't let me past airport security without it. (Was in my backpack. Found it about a week after I got to Boston)
*My box of lemony cookies, since I could've SWORN they were in my room, and, well...they don't appear to be.

Make sure I have packed:
*The stuff that's hanging up in my closet (Tailcoat!) (Into my purple box of costuming go they!)
*Magus's phonecords Mom has them packed in her backpack. Close enough.
*My copy of the Pirates Mixed Up Voyage which I have and I am so happy and eee! (Check and doublecheck this one, because it is IMPORTANT. Also, this goes in the same bag as Vera. No questions)
*MY phonecords and assorted chargers.
*tacnukesoul's number in my cell
*The message for zyxwvut in a form *other* than on Vera

Pack if I can:
*Some Units-clothes-things (in a bag for mum to carry? :D) (Yay, thanks mom!)
*Assorted card-based games to force upon Lauren and Emily (Beyond Fluxx and Junglespeed, which they enjoyed)

Do:
*Charge cellphone
*Charge camera
*Clean guest room out from when Katters stayed >>
*Make sure my room is down to just clutter (no foodtrash)
*Write check for mom for Lauren and Emily's presents
*Back up Vera before she goes travelling
*Finish packing
*Sleep (Wednesday-Thursday) (3:15/30ish to about noon. Nineish hours, yo!)
*Sleep (Thursday-Friday) (4 to 8:30 or so. Yes, I am a moron, etc, all that, woo.)

Figure out:
*Hokay, so, Arisia is at a hotel. And I need to get to this hotel somehow. From the airport. And I don't know what this hotel is called, or what T-stop I need to get off at.
*What exactly my Highly Eclectic airplane outfit is going to look like. (Hokay, I have a top hat that won't fit in my bags, and I have to wear my trenchcoat...)
*Who I know in Boston who has a copy of 'Good Omens' that I can borrow (Ria is hopefully going to lend me her copy. Of course, she's putting it in the "to mail" box at her house, so it will arrive at Lesley...eventually.)

*checks Hiveminder to make sure she's not missing anything*
(God I love this program. I love that I can have things like "Bake a 'stand up and fuck' cake" and "Write 'The Life and Times of Nellie Lovett'" right next to things like "Pack to go Home" and "Do Laundry". Seriously, the closer I get to using this properly (V.Important: Have it in the bookmarks bar at the top of the screen, where it's in plain view. Makes a world of difference) the better my life will be. Plug out)

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QotD: "Wanted: clitoris. Body optional"

Hokay, so. Sweeney Todd.

I went to see it again last night, and dragged along my sketchbook. My original plan was to do some sketchies in the theatre, but this fell to pieces. Instead, I made a big long list of ( Things, scenes, and charecters I ought to draw from the Sweeney Todd movie. (Also, here be spoilers) )

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These notes are, of course, mainly for my own use, but if you see something you desperately want me to do and soon, let me know.

~Sor
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So, elljay has decided to play mommy.

( Some notes about the new adult filters and parenting and my mommy, who is awesome. )

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Ohhh, this post made me giggle. Warning, NSFW text and bad advertisement.

***

What is the name of your house/apartment/whatever? I tend to use names when I can (The Conservatory, Ednoria, Fozzie Corner), although most people don't seem to name their living spaces, which is a shame. I myself hail from the Empty City, though I'm currently staying in an unnammed* dorm room with Grace.

~Sor
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Posts to come:
An analysis of WriMo in general and this month in specific.
Some sort of post about the fact that I've been spewing babble all over this journal for the last week or so
My consolidated info post

*I feel compelled to tell you that I typod that as "nunnamed". I...don't know what to say. Maybe my subconcious thinks I look good in black?

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