I'm still working on getting my doom room hooked up to the internet, but other than that, I'm officially moved in! (Okay, other than that and all the stuff I still have in bags.)

My dorm room's a lot nicer, and roomier, than I thought it'd be. I haven't really met anyone yet. However, I did run into a girl I knew from classes and I got invited to lunch by another. Unfortunately, at that moment I had to be the Awesomely Cool Person who Had to Go Back to Work. Oh well. Also, one of my co-workers is in the same dorm, different floor. So that's cool.

The only pain so far has been the internet thing. Even hearing my dorm-mates wasn't so bad, except for those girls who kept knocking on everyone's door to try and get them to buy a massage.

Which... really was not as suggestive as I made it sound.

Why am I so tired.

In other news, I'm thinking I might take a day or two off work this week to clean up and check out apartments. Although I still don't have my Texas ID or all the paperwork I need to get it (it's being processed, I believe) so it's sort of pointless right now, but... I'm driving myself crazy worrying about moving and I think this will help.

My mom's not exactly being helpful, either. One minute she's supportive and encouraging me to leave, the next she'll be pulling that "But are you really sure?" schtick Moms are so good at. Ugh.

Other than that, though, life is good.

All right, I know it's my own fault for coming to work when I thought I might have the flu, but wauuugh. The only reason I haven't left yet is because I want to squeeze out one more hour. That and walking home is going to suck.

Yesterday was good, though. Getting together with old friends always is.

I... am very sleepy.

I... am working longer than planned.

I... have thought it over and am probably moving this journal to InsaneJournal after week. I will also be splitting up my journals. One for fandom, one for personal stuff, and one for fanworks. I'll post links here to the new entries from now on.

I... forget what I was going to say here.

So, after reading sarisia's latest post, I just remembered I'm turning 21 next week.

And I have no plans beyond "finally get my license so I can drink legally".

What I'm trying to say is: Suggestions? And for those of you who know me IRL, can now be planning time?

Midterms are finally over, which means I can finally relax after three weeks of near nonstop work. I have things I want to post about - my Christmas trip, caucausing in Texas, school in general, great books I've read, and silly fandom stuff (of course) - but for now I think I'm just going to chill out.

Maybe with a good book.

So, who's taking lunch break time to update their LJ because their computer's been down for about a week? Not me. Never me.

Anyway, I had a great time visiting my family in Dallas and Austin. My sister is growing up to be a seriously cool kid, you guys, and I was really happy to see she loved the gift I gave her. (Season 1 set of Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs - on sale, thank goodness.) I also finally got to meet my aunt and uncle on my dad's side! They're very cool, laid back people. Also, I went on a shopping trip with them, sis, and my gramma and Aunt Patty. Shopping with Gramma and Patty is always fun and I got some really cute clothes out of it! Hurrah. Oh, and I saw my stepmom again, and Sally is cool as always. She gave me and Mom some homemade soaps for Christmas. Tons of them, I should say. I haven't tried them all yet but the mocha scrub is to die for. It smells soooo good. Dad got me cash (like always) with which I bought a really great book, Planet Simpson, which is a very in-depth analysis of the show, the characters, the satire, the writing, the production, and its impact.

And thus sums up my vacation.

I haven't done much since but dread the day the next semester starts. I am not looking forward to Advertising/PR classes at all. Desktop Publishing will be great, and Law will be hella hard but interesting, while Advertising and PR don't interest me at all.

I've also been looking at apartments. I don't plan on moving out soon, but I tentatively plan to after this semester, and there's a place offering a lot of close apartments in my price range. (I think.)

Oh god, Mai-HiME is the most emotionally wrenching anime I've seen in ages. End of story. Well... not quite. All I have to say is, if you haven't seen it, do check it out. The beginning is quite funny, the characters are great, and the ending is just... I could stop watching or crying.

In other news, the noodle seafood soup at our local Thai place is so good!!! Super-spicy but soooo good.

Also, today I saw two friends I hadn't seen in a long time. That made me really happy.

Oh, and I'm off work until the New Year. Which is nice, I have to admit. I've been coming in later now that school's out, but I've been working a lot longer, too. It was getting kind of tiring.

And I am SO EXCITED about getting to see my family! Oh, and excited about Christmas with the rest of my family, too, of course!

I'm still alive, in case anyone was wondering. I just haven't felt like updating in a long time. I will write a more in-depth entry later, but right now I'm busy - and not really in the mood to write.

Hey! Guess who's not dead, they've just been having lots of computer problems? ...Yeah, that was some other chick. I can't remember her name. Now, guess who is going to be late for work if they don't jump in the shower and start getting ready? ...Yeah, that would be me. In my defense, I do have a few hours to go, but I have errands to run today.

I'm bored, so...meme.

1. Ask my RPG characters whatever you want.

( Teh List )

In addition? WHEE MY COMICS STORE IS SELLING RUNAWAYS AGAIN. I'm being attacked by Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, and Estrid plotbunnies. (Shush, I conviently forgot my 1sentence Marco/Ax project.) Had an excellent weekend, though I'm now considering homicide. And I need to register for classes.

Real entry later.

ETA: And a new pup, goblinxbites. His twin's journal is coming soon. Nexus, LOL.

When did it become 5 o'clock? Hello, day, you sure passed by fast.

Yeah, I'm bored as hell. Also, I can't decide what to spend my Birthday Money on. Comics, cheap and pretty shirts, or useful things like textbooks? I feel like I should buy fun things because it's Birthday Money. But then I think I have way too much fucking junk in the first place. =/

Nineteen on the nineteenth, huh?

Awesome.

me-sense:  happy
music: Barenaked Ladies - Some Fantastic

I'm hungry.
I'm sleepy.
I...want to write Spider-Man fanfiction.

THIS IS AN ODD COCKTAIL. =/

Quick, someone stop me before I write about Venom.
He eats brains, you know. Chocolate and brains.

Mmmm.

me-sense:  crazy
music: Green Day - Letterbomb

Why, I suddenly find myself employed at a newspaper. I wonder how that happened.

Or in other words: OMG OMG OMG I'M WORKING FOR THE NEWSPAPER!

Going to get killed by work in the meantime, though. I'll have to finish all my assignments before I head out to Austin next week, which reminds me: OMG OMG OMG THANKSGIVING WITH MY BABY SIS AND DAD'S FAMILY!
I'm a little sad that, thanks to my work shecdule, I might not be able to go see GoF with my mom and aunt, but that aside, I'm pretty freaking stoked.

And speaking of freaking, I need the new Runaways right freaking now, please. Nothing's better than a Molly issue. (Is Molly going to run into Alex's gang? I hope so. It'd be wonderfully ironic, considering that she clued in that "Chamber" wasn't really British...)

Oh, and yes, I did go visit all my posse younger friends at the high school last week, which was nice. Kind of scary how little changed, but it was nice all the same, and I'm probably going to go see their musical too. Yay.

EDIT: A treat for the Buffy fans on my f-list: Tales of the Slayer comic scans, featuring Xander and Dracula, courtesy of scans_daily. In fact, while I'm at it, it wouldn't be a bad idea to check their archive for Runaways scans, if you're interested.

One of my cats has died, and we don't know how. I should feel sad about it...I mean, I do, I was very fond of this cat, but sadness hasn't come yet. Mostly there's just shock.

More tomorrow morning, because I have a lot to talk about.

So. A teensy list of the things I am, or will be, up to this coming week.

- Taking 2nd History Exam (should've really done this today, though)
- Talking to pappy and baby sis
- Reading and Reviewing Beholder for sarisia.
- Calling People
- Answering Discussion Questions for History and Drama
- Finishing job application to Hastings
- Going to clinic for a checkup, check out what's going on with the crazy chest pains
- Going to WTAMU and having college talks
- Participating in yet another thread about crazy space sexuality
- Kickstarting Animorphs RPG*

* Speaking of the RPG, lookit! I found the PERFECT Marco and a pretty good Ax. Squeeyay. And if hilarity doesn't ensue because both the Elfangor and Marco journals have stripping icons, I will be very sad.

Expect more in-depth babble on these things later. I'm about to hit the sack now.

Well, life continues, in that not-very-exciting way it's been doing as of late.

All my younger posse has begun their next year of high schoolin', and I hope it's good year. I'm thinking of dropping by the old prison to say hello and check things out -- I want to see the new paper for sure once it comes out -- but I'm not sure when I will do this. Possibly next week.

Also, Robert had his big seventeenth birthday bash. I opted to not use my new Legal Adult Powers to buy him porn and cigarettes, though considering it's Rob, he'd have been thrilled with me. Instead, we -- by which I mean me, him, and Andy -- played DDR and Mortal Kombat all night. For record, cripples can't play DDR. At least not well. This just makes me more determined to buy myself Karaoke Revolution as a 19th birthday present, though. Because that I can do, and I like to.

But, if I do buy it, there will be no renditions of "Like a Virgin". By anyone. (Goddamnit, Robert, why did you have to REMIND me?)

I also learned that you can't help but love Robert and Andy. God bless weird gay midget men who are like brothers to me. Younger, perverted, screwed up brothers.

Onto other topics -- I'm starting to get that familiar longing. A longing for kickass new clothes. I for one blame it on the unholy thing known as "back-to-school shopping", which has just left me hardwired to buy random crap, such as clothing, spiral notebooks and, pens at this time of year.
I also blame it on this great place: The $15 Dollar Store. Where you can buy designer shirts, skirts, dresses, and etc for 15 dollars, plus shipping and tax. My lust for some of the shirts, in particular, knows no bounds. (Like this one, this one, and this one). Seriously, this site is to me what BPAL is to some on my flist. Except I haven't bought anything from it yet.

However. I already own lots of clothes, if you ask me. All right, I own a lot of shirts. I don't own so many pants. I need to buy pants. At this point, I'm just abusing the word pants because it is funny. However, I have a solution to the problem of lots of shirts + desire for more shirts =/= practical.
Canyon has a Goodwill. So, along with my plan to incade Canyon High, I have a vague idea of what I'm doing next week: invade high school, give clothes to Goodwill, and look for a new job.

Perhaps then I will have updates that are cooler than this one. Or maybe not.

PS: I did beat FFX about two days ago. I'll do a babbling fannish post on it, but not tonight. I don't feel like it.

PPS: America the Book and Stella are love. But for totally different reasons.

I think the Great Emo is dying.

It's not like life magically fixed itself or anything, but things are looking up. I'm going to get my acceptance letter from Amarillo College, so that headache's done with, and I'm back in contact with my friends. As far as that's concerned, I have learned one lesson, and it this: Georgia, your friends SUCK at keeping in touch, so if you want to be with them you have to do all the hard work.

Also, I'm eating a fudgicle. It's hard to be emo when you have chocolate ice cream in your mouth. Unless there's been a breakup, then you can be as emo as you like.

To continue the list of good things -- I finally got FF7! Christina, this is the one they're doing the movie about, and the one I said was really hard to find. Well, yesterday, it was found. There was rejoicing. I literally leapt in the air...which, in hindsight, is kind of embarassing. But so what?

Roni (girlieross) and I are also having our first sleepover, which is exciting times a million. Well, not that kind of exciting, as neither of us are into the wimmins. However, it will still be fun like no fun has ever funned. At least this time there won't be a lot of girls making out, unlike a lot slumber parties I've attended. Ahem.

Before I depart, I will toss an awesome link to the winds: A Softer World.

It's a webcomic, but not the kind you might be used to. Instead, it's just photos and words. There's no plot or anything, but the strips themselves are wonderful -- one minute they're funny, another they're very deep, and sometimes they're just confusing. To give you an example, I'll post one of my favorites:

( Click, for great justice! Or the funny. )