Reason why watching Supernatural with your parents (especially if your parents are therapists) is a bad idea:

My mother now thinks she understands me better because I like Dean so much. Of course, she adores Sam, and the way he talks about feelings all the time, and I suppose it's true that a lot of the time my reactions to the talking it out approach are quite Dean-esque.

Except I don't do the confessional thing. And I don't start throwing punches, though it's sometimes incredibly tempting.

Mostly, he keeps things bottled up inside and doesn't deal with them until they break out. I keep things inside because I can process them that way; sometimes they hurt me, but most of the time it all works out without needing to cry on someone's shoulder. The thing I really hate most about the way my mother thinks about this sort of thing is that for her, there's bottling up feelings in the bad way and there's talking about them to deal with them. There is no fucking middle ground.

Hi, middle ground. You are my home.

Google has finally figured out how to let me sign into my gmail AND my googledocs account (which are different, since I had no gmail when I signed up for googledocs) AT THE SAME TIME. Also, gmail is now filtering from my CC mail account and forwarding to yahoo, which means I get everything in one place. It required a bit of organizational skillz on my part to keep my yahoo inbox from going insane, but. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, GOOGLE. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME OVERCOME MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESS SYNDROME.

I just did that thing where you eat all the unhealthy bits from a trail mix that has chocolate in it. I might as well just buy chocolate chips, really, but what fun would that be? (This might be the reason for my capslocking. The sugar high, that is.)

My jury duty is complete, and all I did was make a couple of phone calls. The same thing happened to me last time; why do they even make me call? Maybe they make a profit from my phone bill (well, really it's my parents' phone bill), or something. Wouldn't surprise me.

I got the confirmation email for the online Marine Biology course today -- not as cool as the Coral Reef Ecology course CC offers in Belize, but I couldn't take that one. Still, I get to dork about bio. This ought to be fun.

THERE WAS A FUCKING HORNET THING SITTING ON THE FRIDGE WHEN I WENT TO GET FOOD. A hornet. ON MY FRIDGE. I was scared to open the door for fear of making it fly at my face.

I think 60% of my icons are SPN. And more than half of those are from jameserin. She wins at the iconses, clearly.

I miss my shooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. SEPTEMBER IS TOO EFFING FAR AWAY.

Milo has taken to shoving his cold nose into the closest bare skin of mine -- feet, thigh, elbow, and sometimes the standard ass (standard for dogs, that is). I guess he needs a walk.

I'm rambling, la. Brain is all over the place today, which isn't a good omen for getting lots of writing done. Oh well.

( An open letter to Eric Kripke, spoiler-free )

I need to see Prince Caspian like whoa. Also, I want to go to Projekt Revolution again, especially since it sounds like there might be more bands I actually like there. The last few years I've been going for Linkin Park, and also for the amusement of my friends hating on the other bands -- because obvsly Linkin Park is TOTALLY less emo than My Chemical Romance, don'tcha know.

Granted, I hate MCR and like Linkin Park, but I do admit that LP is incredibly emo. I just... have picky tastes, about every genre.

I have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday to go over the results of my last blood test, which was the most complete blood work I've had done yet. Fortunately, they've started taking less blood (they only took one vial for like... 6 tests oO) and I didn't pass out when I got it done on Thursday, as I was expecting.

I'm still not functional, but I'm in a fairly good mood today. :)

So. Tired.

Must. Stay. Up. And. Watch. SPN.

Someone distract me until there's a download link? (And tell me if you see one before I do?). I've got a torrent but those take for freakin' ever. DD:

I'll never be able to sleep like this. Not that the finale is going to help me any. >.>

ALSO, SPOIL ME AND DIE. PAINFULLY. *avoids f-list like the plague*

I feel a little better now. I'm organized for at least the first week or so of hp_traditions, though I'm still trying to work out a few kinks. And I turned in my pinch-hit for the hpdesmutathon, which leaves only my fic for hpvamp and hp_traditions left. The latter got left to the last minute in the face of modly duties, and now that I am mod I don't technically have to have it in till the last minute, but I think I will have it finished soon. The vamp!fic deadline is closer, though.

Must. Not. Sign. Up. For riddle_gifts. MUST NOT. I need to like, detox from all the fic I've been writing. Or something.

Which reminds me. against the dying of the light has taught me a valuable lesson -- not to post fic until I have finished it. Apologies to everyone that was following it, but as you can probably already tell, it's been put on hold for other things. I will get back to it and finish it and THEN I will post it in all its glory. I promise. ♥

Speaking of writing, my narrative poem placed third in one of the hogwarts_elite contests. I never thought I'd place in an H_E contest at all, so that makes me incredibly happy.

Also, I have converted my mother to the wonders of Supernatural. Granted, she's only seen the first four episodes and we haven't really gotten to the gore, but I think that once she's drawn into the show she'll be able to stand it, even though her stomach's not as strong as mine. Maybe. I hope.

I'm going to be okay, I think.

I GOT THE SPN DVDS. BOTH SEASONS.

And just in time to make me feel better for not getting the RA job! Or any job, yet. I have failed in the job department and the health department.

BUT I HAVE DVDS. Now I can share the SPN love with my family. :D :D :D



Also, thank you guys for the icon tips. Now I have so many geeky icons I can't decide which to upload. XDD

Today is devoted to watching the special features and finishing up the fic I promised I'd have in this weekend. Not everything about having a stomach ache is bad.

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1) I need more icons. I just bah-leted almost all of mine because... well... I'm tired of them.

Specifically, I need geeky icons. I have my OTPea one but it's NOT ENOUGH, OK. If anyone wants to direct me towards some good biology/chemistry/general geek icons, I'd really appreciate it. Or if I can bribe you into MAKING me some, that'd be even more awesome.

Also, pretty girls in hats, because apparently that's my flavour of the week. Maybe my mom has reason to think that I'm a raging lesbian, except that I'm not.

Or funny expressions. Or just... awesome icons, in general. Of people, preferably.

2) You know that feeling when there's a bunch of stuff you COULD be doing and you're doing none of it? That was me today. I woke up groggy and didn't get better as the day progressed.

I feel bad for ditching Mamoru and then turning my phone off when he tried to call me again (I had already told him I wasn't going though, so... it wasn't that bad? DD:) but I would've just brought the party down anyway.

3) dark_adrenalynn is now THREE hours difference from me. Which means she signs off way too early and leaves my muse unsatisfied. >:|

4) I... don't remember what I was going to put here.

OH RIGHT. tangomaureen83 came up with stuff to drink to during Supernatural episodes. Go look, s'awesome.



YEAH. Take that, eljay world. >.>


ETA: 3:42:13 AM vibratingsalmon: Dude. A barrel of crude is over 125 USD.