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I asked on Facebook where to buy more plastic hair bodkins, because I'm down to one (of the three or so I used to have) and it's fun to braid rings into my hair. PLUS I discovered this most recent playing-with-hair that wait, I can just straight up pull my hair through my hair using this tool and _huh_ this opens up some possibilities and at the minimum makes my braid crown look _much_ smoother because it won't have the weird leftover tuft that won't tuck in properly.

(Or it will have, it'll just tuck in properly).

I'm also considering buying a pack each of orange and lime green bobby pins, because the website that sells the bodkins also sells a veritable 20 colour rainbow of bobby pins and like, this is _grand_ I could do some really lovely shit with this!

Do I _need_ fancy hair toys? Ehhhhh nooo? but I do want them! I keep discovering I'm capable of doing interesting things with my hair, and I'm also allowed to do interesting things with Sam's hair so like, exploring the space of interesting is definitely something I'm enjoying doing! Anyways, they're a damn sight cheaper than the fancy bug stockings and garter belt I keep looking at and also emphatically don't need (but want).

Anyways and as always, if you'd like to play with my hair do let me know! I have more of it than you think. Sometime I should try and put together a tagging of photos of it done interestingly.

~Sor
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So it's been about four years since I properly updated my wantlist, and my sister was asking, so here, have the newest version. (You can find all the old versions under the Wantlist tag.)

Obligatory Disclaimers:

1) No one ever has to get me stuff. Ever. I am both capable of buying my own stuff, and perfectly happy to not have stuff. No one has to, not parents, not partners, not friends, nobody. This post is only to help you if you do wanna get me stuff.

2) I am almost always poor, and absolutely always bad at buying presents for other people. I don't believe in gift reciprocity. I will get you things if I find things that work for you, but I am not likely to make a point of getting you things. If I get you things, you in no way have to get me things --see point one.

3) This is not a comprehensive list of everything I want in the world. Some of this list is very specific, some of it is kinda vague. Often I am happy with things that are similar (but not always). For more information on the sorts of things I like, see my Aestheticslist which needs a little updating (I am moving more towards solely pumpkin colours and away from red and purple, for instance) but is pretty accurate. I like pumpkin colours, spiders, and math. Do with that as you will!

( Onwards! )

Whuf. Like I said in the disclaimers, I'm sure there's other things I want, but there's very little in my life I actually need and don't have, so this is a pretty good start!

~Sor
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So jeeze. It's been what? Since 2009? Yeah, since 2009 since the last time I posted a wantlist.

And the last time I updated it was a year and a half ago. Ugh. So, I'm all a fan of having one convenient perpetual link, but I think it's about time for a rehaul, really. And more importantly, time for a reminder that I want stuff and no matter how complicated I am about presents, sometimes people insist on giving them to me anyways, and you might as well get it right.

Obligatory Disclaimers:

1) There is no social situation where I consider you obligated to get me presents. Not birthdays, not deathdays, not winter holidays, not anniversaries, not any other holiday. And this goes for everyone --my parents and partners are no more obligated to get me presents than the rest of you.

2) I am usually poor, often thoughtless, and generally shit at getting presents for other people. So if for some reason you're only into presents based on reciprocity, you doubly shouldn't get me anything.

3) This is in no way a comprehensive list of everything I want in the world. It's not even a comprehensive list of everything I know I want in the world. You can find more information on the sorts of things I'm into by browsing the "wantlist" tags on my livejournal or tumblr.

Onto the important part of the entry! ( Some things I would like at some point or another! )

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Whew. It's hard work being greedy.

~Sor
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Update log!
2012-11-04 2035: Posted!
2013-11-02 1327: Removed: St Trinian's, 10 Things I Hate About You, Empowered volumes 1 and 2, Super Stupor 4, Delusions of Gender, Agricola, Mini-bike pump, Water bottle, Lightweight small-packing tent, professional shoes, Chucks, money for mattress, pocketknife, filing cabinet, old my little ponies
Added: Elementary season 1, The Linguini Incident, Thermarest Pad, Metal camping cup, Do Your Thing shirt, DANCE print, Homestuck calendar, The Sacred Harp, Flatbed scanner
Fixed various broken links as I saw them.

So, let's go with that ten things for christmas meme! I did it last year, and got...uh...well, let's look at that real quick. Lessee...I got seven. I didn't get two, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten. I might've gotten one, and NEWW was certainly good for that. I got a little bit of three, and a little bit of nine. So...let's try for more achievable wishes this year or something?

1) I wish for people to examine their behaviour and try to be a little bit better. Fail better, is the phrase I like best. No one will be perfect about everything, but try to be at least less awful.

2) I wish for all of Narbonic. I'm bidding for some of it on e-bay, so maybe I'll wind up with some of the books on my ownsome, but five and six don't appear to be up there, and I wannnnnnnt so bad.

3) Send me letters! My address is here and is valid until May, at which point I will provide a new address. Bonus --I just found a stash of envelopes with stamps and return addresses, so I'm gonna try and send some letters to people or something.

4) Make me a mix-tape! Dude, you don't even have to use a CD for this, put together twelve to twenty-four songs or so, write some liner notes about what the hell these songs have in common, drop them into a zip file, and e-mail it to me.

5) I continue to want goggles that go over my glasses and look kinda neat.

6) I want less stuff. Come over and help me decruft somehow. Or tell me you want my stuff, and which stuff of mine you want, and, I don't know, toss me a couple of dollars so I can mail it to you. Among other things, I think I'm going to have to start going through my random toys and my ducks and cull them --quite plausibly by bringing a basket of toys to Arisia to give to random people who catch my fancy.

7) I need money, _really badly_, and right now, one of the best ways for me to do that is to do various odd jobs. I can do babysitting (any age), I can do housework, I can do organizing, I can do random yardwork, and I'm not really proud. I will happily do things for money.

7a) Anybody want to buy pretty shiny earrings made of origami or other weird things? I should set that up into a better store sometime, because yeah, this would be useful.

8) Take me out for sushi. Come dancing with me. Convince me to take you to the science museum. Platonic or not, those are my three favourite dates, and I would love to do any of them, with any of you. Oh, and if you're the sort to explore the corners of the world where most people never go...I would love to join you, to find those places with you, to learn.

9) Tell me stories, in writing or vocally. Bonus points for feeding my voyeuristic side. What, I am not proud!

10) So, I was talking with Matt the other day, and hit upon the possible idea of hosting a barefoot ball as graduation party --or hell, even just a graduation party as graduation party. If you have ideas for how one would do that in Boston when one does not have a house of their own, that would be useful!

Perhaps I will make an actual christmas list sometime, or otherwise update my wantlist. But for now, these are some things I currently want for Holiday.

What do you want? I'm horrible at presents, but I like to make people happy. It's quite the conundrum sometimes.

~Sor
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DISCLAIMER: I keep a proper wishlist here. These are just superspecial christmas wishes.

Step One

Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it. Once a wish has been granted, it will be crossed off my list.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Mine got...kinda esoteric and weird there. And here I really was hoping I could make the list full of possible things.

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1) Support some webcartoonists. I keep a collection of the swag I specifically want but hell, you don't have to get it for me --just find some swag you want, and send some money to your favourite online comics guy or gal.

(And, I mean, I encourage the support of all art and artists. But for some reason, webcartoonists hold a particularly dear spot in my heart.)

2) Send me some letters, or some postcards, or a package, or an envelope containing an ad ripped out of a magazine, or a spoon, or whatever. I really *really* like getting mail, like a lot. Brightens my whole day.

You can find my college address here --it's valid until May.

3) Go dancing with me. Seriously, if you're Boston/Cambridge based, I do Scottish Country ever Monday night, and can be coaxed into Contra on occasional Thursdays. The SCD crowd is really friendly to beginners, and no one will stress out if you mess up a little, especially because EVERYONE messes up a little, in some dance or another.

If you're Maryland based, there is Oella --assorted vintage ballroom and swing set to modern music. First and third Sundays, Westchester community center.

4) I want what is essentially an Amelia Earhart costume. I have an okay leather jacket, but I need the brown aviator hat and the long white silk scarf. And probably the white(?) breeches

5) Goggles that go over my glasses.

6) A TARDIS. Would settle for an Airboat (Flyboat? Boatplane? Shipplane?) from Wonderpets. Or a really frelling good teleporter.

7) Some people to lighten the fuck up and learn to take a joke. Some people to learn that some things Just Aren't Funny. Myself to be able to balance those two halves, and even more so, be able to reconcile things like the fact that racist jokes⁰ aren't funny with the fact that battered women jokes are fucking hilarious^{1, 2, 3}.

8) The usual. TGAoEaT and to be published. You can't help with these, they're my fights to fightwin.

9) Winning the other fights that are mine alone would be nice too.

7) In general, to be better about checking my upper/middle-class white girl seemingly heteronormative privilege at the door. To fight the good fight(s) even though they're hard, because it sucks to not be white and it sucks to not be straight and it sucks to not be mono-sexual⁶ and it sucks to not be cis and it sucks to not be monogamous and it sucks to not be male and it sucks to not be Christian, and it sucks to not be upper/middle-class, and it sucks to not be Privileged⁷, whatever we're talking about. And some of those I have to actively deal with, and some of those I have friends who have to actively deal with, and some of those are just things that a good person would do their best to deal with. I wanna see what I can do about being a good person.

Also, for internet drama to stop happening. Or if it does, keep happening in places where I can cozy up with some popcorn and watch, and don't have to lift a finger to deal with it.

10) My 21st birthday wants to be really really awesome. I want it to be a boozin' party --bring me the ingredients to make your favourite mixed drink. Make said drink for yourself. Give me a sip to taste, and leave me the ingredients. This will give me proper knowledge of how to make some drinks, and a little bit of a liquor cabinet, for when I have company.

Also, dancing. I want lots and lots and lots of dancing. Because dancing is bloody well *awesome*.

...Oh, and anyone suggesting I do 21 shots will, them themselves, be shot.

~Sor
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0: Well, except for this one:

What do you call a black guy who flies a plane?
A pilot, you racist!

1: In my mind. I do not speak for everyone.
2: Why do brides wear white? So the dishwasher matches the fridge! Booyah!
3: Oh fuckingfuck, this is gonna turn into a post, isn't it?

Look, hitting girls⁴ isn't funny. At all, or ever. Neither is, for that matter, hitting boys. Nor is racism.

Why do I find battered women jokes funny? I don't know. Because I'm an asshole? Maybe. Because I'm a woman, and were I less lucky, that could be me? Maybe.

I don't think the humour comes from the actual joke. "Goes to the kitchen and makes me a sandwich if she knows what's good for her!" is not what I want from anyone, and if I knew someone who was in that situation, I'd do what I could to help them get out. But the joke is funny, because it's laughing at the attitudes that let such a thing exist --"oh, haha, some men are so backwards and ignorant that they'll hit women! How droll!"

It's not droll. It's scary as shit. It's wonderful that I've never had to put up with that, but other people do. This is not good. I can't promise I'll stop laughing, because sometimes the humour is in just how offensive the joke is. But let's see if I can be better about not letting such attitudes spread.

*scratches out 7 and rewrites it*

4: Or women. I tend to use the terms "girls" and "boys" in my journal significantly more often than I use "women" and "men". This is not me trying to look down on people, or make them seem less by using the diminutive⁵. I just tend to feel more comfortable with the terms boy and girl, both because I feel they sound a little nicer, and because I believe there are different social connotations to woman and man than girl or boy.

This is why my 3d4 boyfriends are called collectively "my boys" instead of "my men". The latter just...sounds weird.

5: With the exception of myself. I scornfully call myself "Little girl" pretty damn often in my BehindtheWalls and otherwise private (read: emo) writings, and it's almost always meant as a term of offense --a sort of "why the fuck don't you grow some responsibility and grow up already". I don't use it towards other people. Other people do NOT have the right to use it towards me.

6: Used here as to mean "neither hetero nor homosexual"

7: Considering that I can think of at least three that I didn't list (fat, ablism, agism) and I'm sure there are more...yeah. Let's work on that being a good person thing.

DISCLAIMER:

I'm not greedy, I'm thorough. I like many many things in the world, and these are some of the things I like best, and want the most.

( Big frigging list of stuff. )

If you have found something awesome for me that's NOT on this list, by all means, feel free to give it to me. Presents of any sort, any time, rule.

Also note that I don't, at any point, need presents, and I happen to love hugs above everything else. This is not begging, this is just reference.

LASTUPDATED: 29Nov2007

~Sor
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Although, apparently early in the morning I'm either more tactful, or too tired to be angry at people.

Yeah. Sor is up at three in the god's be damned morning. Rather against her will, I'm afraid.

Being a girl BITES! You boys don't realize how lucky you have it.

On the plus side, it is post Balticon, so my body can behave itself ocassionally. How much you wanna bet I start bleeding as soon as I get into London? Please don't answer that -I'm an optimist. I'd like to *pretend* the odds are in my favour, even if they're not.

Seven girls and four adults, half of whom will be PMSing at one point or another, I suspect. Oh dear Lord, I've signed onto a nightmare. Blah.

You know what sucks? Finding midol and taking hot baths and roaming around have waken me up, not to mention google-serching how to make a hot pad out of things I might have in my pantry (thus far unsucessful)

Oh wait, apparently rice works. Hmmm, does anyone know if plastic baggies explode if you put them in the nukerwave? Maybe I should find a dicebag. Let's go see if we can wrangle one of those.

Oh right, and the above sucks because I really, REALLY can't justify going back to sleep. Hear me out on this one before you give me your dissaproving looks, mom. If I go back to sleep at this point, I will be impossible to wake up, and fairly groggy and tired. If I make the push, however, and just stay awake until school and then do a regular day, I will end up tiredish at the end of it, but I'll be awake and presumably ready when Veronica shows up. A unique and interesting concept, I know.

I wanna try polyphasic sleep. Except it'd be virtually impossible for me to pull off, what with SCHOOL and not being able to sleep in the middle of that. I'd try it during the summer, but it'd be a bitch to have to readapt to monophasic when school started again, and I don't think I could pull it off in London. (Scratch that...I know I couldn't pull it off London-side) So if I was going to flirt with the idea, I'd have to start whenever it is I start college.

Which is not going to be soon.

Should I be turning this into two entries? Probably, but in all truth I don't care. It's amazing about how much I don't care about things right now. Early morning is a very selfish time.

Midol is the best invention in the world, however. Also, it is impressive how much more awake one feels when one gets dressed in real clothes. Nightgowns are nice, but have that whole restful quality to them. Real clothes are much better.

I wonder how I'm going to explain awake to Dad. Mum will be easy enough to deal with, until she reads this entry (And I'm far too lazy to make an 'everyone but my mother' filter) but dad is not used to having strange teenagers be in his house. Well, awake in his house. Especially not me.

I should go work on my lovely little Balticon report. All manner of stuff has made it in there, and mek is going to kill me, but that's ok. I can ressurect myself, that's the fun thing about being a sorceress.

I will go ahead and say that favorite people of the weekend (Besides Larry and Sue for bringing me --THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!) are probably marcmagus and jannyblue. Mostly because I really wasn't expecting either of them, and they both pleased me no end pretty much just by existing. So yay for them.

Ooo, internet's working. I should go investigate finding that thing. Yeah. *waves hand vaguely* I'll tell you lot later, unless I forget, which is entirely likely.

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Dude. A three hour stream of conciousness elljay update done when I'm too tired to think very rationally is probably cruel. But wouldn't it be lovely fun? This is why I don't advise asking what I'm thinking at any given moment -I'm odd enough to tell you. And unlike some people, I fund it impossible to turn off my thoughtstream, or even really to limit it. Which leads to babbling, and ocassionally, nervous breakdowns. But that only happened once.

Right, archive trawling. Back shortly.

Oh wow, I didn't say anything NEARLY as embaressing as I expected to in my post-origins report. I must have saved all the swooning for the private journals. Is it possible that little old froshman me knew the first rule of online blogging, namely, always assume that the person who you least want to read anything, will?

Actually, I think she knew it better then I do these days. So, I am just more trusting, or do I have better secrets to share? Maybe I'm fracturing the walls some.

Of course, then something like the recent fiasco with whatshisname occurs, and I go back and add another layer of cement to the top. (And before you ask, no, I do know exactly what whatshisname's name is, I just don't feel like telling *you*. See above notes on assuming that the person you want least to read, is.)

I like my walls. *runs hand over them affectionately* Which apparently I can do, as there now seems to be a rather three dimensional map of my brain in the lounge. That's new.

*looks around*

Her pit seems to have dissapeared as well, which is very very nice. I can definently deal with Her not being lurking so much, and Her recent proximity to Hyde was making me nervous. Even if he's been very quiet lately.

Really, they all have. Maybe it's just that I haven't talked to Aren and the boys in a while -they all florished when I was regularly chatting with her. Although, it tends to be a bit...dramatic therabouts.

'sok, it tends to be a bit dramatic hereabouts, too. Even discounting all the lovely voices in my head, my life is...exciting. Interesting, perhaps. Ah, a Shin'a'in curse, "May your life be interesting." Provided I'm remembering right, of course.

...did I spell that right? *Googles*

Oo, I did! Ha, shows that my lovely Myste Lackey obsession hasn't COMPLETELY died out. I should reread some of those again, especially the ones I've only ever read once.

You know what are fun? Nancy buttons, which are rather too pretty, and damn they STOLE MY MIND! (Not to mention far too much of my money) I'm currently wearing my "sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak POUNCE!" and my "Free Hugs" buttons, because they're still attached to my hat. I should probably DETACH all the other ones that are living on my piratecoat or my bag, but meh. Too lazy. Plus, the dangers of the internets (ie, people I enjoy chatting with) have stolen my brain again. Curse them all!

Well, actually don't. I do, after all, rather like both mek and Marc, and them being cursed is bad.

I'm going to go work on my conreport some. Mostly because I'm now rational enough to do so.

*isback* Not that it really matters on elljay, it's all sort of blendy and timeless. It's almost like a time machine!

I should go out and watch the sunrise. I don't think it's started yet though, so I can't. I should at least keep track of it though.

Talking to people is most excellent. I like people. Of course, I can't talk to people AND have a thoughtstream going at the same time, so yeah. Or rather, I can, I just can't write it down.

Oh wow, y'know what I haven't done in a while? I haven't trawled the What's New page at Snopes in a while. Back shortly...

Well, not shortly. And carp, I missed the sunrise. Bah.

I should go start getting ready for school. Shoes, and whatnot. See you cats and kittens later!

~Sor
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Oh my goodness gracious! Bunny is coming out with a book!!

Oh, thats VERY tempting...

~Sor
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My Birthday is in two days!!! Freak-Yeah!!

Tomorrow I am going to the mall to buy Veronica a present (Because I haven't yet since I'm a horrible friend and all that) and eating lunch and hugging ugly dolls and stuff. And dropping more non-subtle hints to people, can't forget that.

I WANT AN UGLY DOLL!!!

Then, after malling, I'm going to go hang out with everyone. And they'll prolly all hate me since I'm gonna show up after Jeremy does by a lot. I will be uberlate!! Mwahahaha!!

I'm also going to leave early (maybe) since I have a babysitting job. Oh, NTS: Ask/Beg DJDC if I'm allowed to use their computer once their DS is asleep:

Pretty please with sugar and ponys and watermelons and fish on top? Pleeeese!

Alright, begging done.

I turn 15 in less then 48 hours!! BOOYAH!

All for now. Oh yeah, Kullervo has cool dreams.

~Sorceress/Kat

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I saw these at suncoast and INSTANTLY fell in love with them. Uglydolls are these ugly plush stuffed animal/dolls that look SO much like fiends (as in the Making Fiends type) I want tehm all, all of them!! Now!!!

Especially Wage. He's my favorite. He's orange and has a cute little apron...

And they're all so soft!! I dropped several hints to mom ("I want these, aren't they KYOOT!!!") so hopefully I'll get one for my birthday. (August 28th, 15 days!)

And thats another whopping big hint. *grin*

www.uglydolls.com

Anyway, I love them muchly so I wanted to share both them and the fact that MY BIRTHDAYS IN 15 DAYS!!!!

~Sorceress/Kat

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COUNTDOWN:
Moms Party: TOMORROW!
Sluggy Day: The 25th, 12 days
My Birthday: The 28th, 15 days
School Starts: The 30th, 17 days
Veronicas Birthday: The 31st, 18 days
Jeremy's Birthday: Sep 1st, 21 days

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