"I can't believe you said that! Apologize to the entire continent of England!"

Long time no talk, LJ! That's what happens when you break your damn laptop screen, I suppose. But now I have time (read: hours upon hours) to kill at an airport, so I shall blog!

I'll be trying JulNoWriMo again this year, but I can't decide what to write. I could work on one of my fanfics - they allow previously started stories. But I once again feel the urge to write something original and possibly publishable. BUT I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS!

1. iFiles - the FBI's squad that investigates the far reaches of the Internet (read: there's an Agent 4chan). I have a full cast list and vague plot for this, but I honestly think it would work better as a comic than a story.

2. This dream I had the other night - sort of a Harry Potter/Animorphs/Obernewtyn fusion. There's an 'information night' for a new academy of the best and brightest (it would be set in a slightly dystopic future), and after all the children and teens arrive, the "teachers" essentially either seduce them to the dark side, or imprison them. A small group, in their panic, activate previously unknown abilities, and shift into an animal form. From there, they go on the run as the academy enslaves the entire island (think more England size than Hawaii size). They can only do one animal - there's four girls, who shift into a bear, a snake, an owl, and an eagle - bear!girl is immediately captured due to the size of her animal, and eagle!girl learns to shift into other bird forms eventually. There's three boys - a mouse, some sort of weasel-type creature that's bigger than a ferret but smaller than a badger (I'm currently thinking meercat), and... I'm not sure what the last boy is. Monkey, maybe.

3. Dmitri Jones, Henchman - I recently rediscovered what I've written for this series, and realized it's kindof awesome, so I'm thinking about picking it back up.

4. A Gallowsverse story, set between the two prequel short stories and Gallow's Humor, in which Ryan is set on the trail of an escaped Death Row inmate and hilarity ensues.

5. The Secret School - fantasy story set in a world similar to Dmitri, but a little less slapstick. Centering on the goings-on of a school for the 'darker' side of things - assassins, thieves, spies, bodyguards, etc.

...having typed all that out, I gotta say that I'm leaning towards #5.

...nuttymadam made it onto the Soup.

I may have just put together a document with every mention of Zacharias Smith in the last three HP books. Just, uh, so you know.

EDIT: For everyone's reference, it's here.

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

( Five Things I've Been Working On )

And now, to translate my recommendations journal to del.icio.us.

...they just mentioned Twilight on the spelling bee.

...Tom Bergeron is commentating.

I just spent forever and a day (read: three hours) working on my room. Went through half the shit between my door and my desk. I'd tell you all that I found, but, uh, it's a lot of shit. So I'll just mention the eleven action figures (5 LotR, 1 Animorphs, 5 Doctor Who) and three 20Q (TV, Sports, HP). And, of course, a collection of my early works which make me want to hide my head in shame. And, as I do with most things that shame me, I feel like sharing with you!

First, there's my 6th grade paper on the Yukon Territory that somehow managed an A, even though the actual written content is maybe a page long - everything else is just random tables I pulled off of the Internet the night before it was due. Yes, indeed, my slacker procrastinating ways started quite long ago.

Then comes my hastily put-together "book of figurative language" from my 6th grade poetry unit in Language Arts, entitled 'Figuratively Speaking'. All of the poems were pretty much horrible and done very quickly (reproduced exactly as found):
( Birds )
( Sam the Salamander )
( Onomatopoeia )
( Alliteration )
( Him )

Next up: a story written August 10th, 1998, about a month before I turned nine (so, fifth grade, I think - damn you year round schooling!). As a warning, pretty much all of 4th and 5th grade I used Animorphs and Star Wars names for my original characters.
( Magic Doves )

And finally, from way back in third grade, we have my ancient Egyptian fairy tale. No, srsly. I as about six or seven, so it's... kinda special. Once again, everything is typed as originally written.
( The War and the trick. )

Iiiii... kinda love that last story, I gotta say. Just for the sheer wtf-ery.

So apparently I'm retarded.

Went to see Star Trek tonight, it was awesome. So when we got home I decided to look up the movie website and see what games they had. Well, one was this: http://www.addictinggames.com/spotlight/startrek.html

Yeah. I went through everything... and got the rank of Crewman 1st Class. Ouch, guys, ouch. Of course, it didn't help that it took me for-freakin'-ever to do all of the 'spot the differences' tests. I did good on the 'shoot the pirates' and the 'don't let the unstable atom touch the sides', which is probably the only reason I didn't just totally flunk out.

...not that this is entirely inaccurate for Starfleet!me. I mean, c'mon. You gotta have, like, skills and shit for that.

On another note, I feel the urge to learn to fly planes now. Yeeeah. That'll end, how do we say, BADLY.

Too much fish w/malt vinegar. Am possibly dying.

( Spoilers! )
Lee (9:50:18 PM): (Ahahaha, that commercial! "Sir, unless the bomb is committing a crime, there's nothing we can do.")
Julia (9:52:25 PM): (Everybody Hates Chris is actually a really good show. I watched the first season. There was, "In labaratory projects, scientists give mice cheese. In the Brooklyn Projects, the government gives people cheese." And the dad, when milk is spilled, get down on his knees looking at it, saying, "Look at this! This is 15 cents worth of milk! Someone is licking up this milk!")
Lee (9:52:44 PM): (So... your dad, basically?)
Julia (9:52:55 PM): (That's exactly what me and my mom and my sister yelled)
Julia (9:55:02 PM): In fact, just yesterday, my mom spilled some nuts, and my dad was like, "That's $4 of nuts." Mom: I'm sorry, it just slipped. Human error. Dad: Yeah, but now I'll have to buy more nuts so you can spill them. Me: Four dollars worth, exactly. Guess we'll have to skimp on chicken broth. Dad: *grumble*

colin_chaotic (8:50:19 PM): Huh. The LJ writer's block for today is 'how long could you survive by yourself in the wild?' It's a good question. I'm thinking... two hours, tops.
no_kant_no (8:50:35 PM): ...it would depend on where.
no_kant_no (8:50:57 PM): ...actually, nvm, I'd die anywhere.
colin_chaotic (8:51:15 PM): Hahaha, yeah. That was my thought - I was all, well, what supplies would I have? Wait, that wouldn't matter.
colin_chaotic (8:51:54 PM): Honestly, if I was by myself in the wild for longer than a day or two, no people, books, pets, TV, I'd probably off myself preemptively.
no_kant_no (8:52:02 PM): Exactly.
colin_chaotic (8:52:24 PM): I don't do well with boredom. I could handle starvation and weird diseases, but fuck boredom.

Finally went through and updated my rec journal (c_crecs) with all those stories I finished and left sitting open in a tab. Now I only have four windows of at least twenty open tabs worth of fics! (Deargodwhypleaseshootme.) I'm up to over 150 recs, too! Meaning that if I get bored and want to reread things, I actually have things to reread! Hooray!

Also, http://sonic-waffles.livejournal.com/5845.html . Because it's awesome and I want to close out that tab too, goddamnit.

Now, the eternal question: red Gatorade or hot chocolate?

Gah. Managed to get my paper written... about 400 words more than I needed, even. And with no sleep, of course, which makes my skin and hair and everything feel gross and I must resist the urge to wash my hands compulsively.

I've had a profile on FFN for over nine years now. NINE YEARS, YOU GUYS. I'm only nineteen, I don't need this pressure! (For your fyi that was too much tmi, I have been on LJ for 6.5 years.)

Also: wtf, last.fm? Why are my last three played songs the Jonas Brothers? I don't listen to them! I don't even have any of their songs on my iTunes, for cryin' out loud!

Speaking of, one day I should go through my profile and my communities and remove things that no longer apply/are deleted. I mean, I'm a member of over 600 communities. Over 200 of which are friended! Godineedalife.

( Read more... )

Remembering Columbine also brought up another, more recent memory, from Humanex. There'd been another school shooting (albeit with far less casualties), and Dave had us talk about in Girl's Group. He had a print-out of warning signs for school shooters, and asked us to raise our hands (if we wanted to) if the sign applied to us.

And nearly all of us raised our hands for nearly all of them. And yet I always felt safer at Humanex than at any other school - probably because as batshit you'd have to be to shoot up your school, you'd have to be triple that to try and go after Humanex. Plus, to be honest, that's a level of premeditation probably only Julia and I would consider, and we'd be far more likely to choose a murder method that would leave us uncaught.

The main thing that stands out from the aftermath of Columbine is that even at that age, when I was fairly well ostracized and occasionally beat up, I never even thought about sympathizing with Klebold and Harris. Not once. One of the few times in my life I've been that clear-cut on anything, even horrific crimes.

Ugh. I just hauled ass from the Tivoli to South wearing a sweater. It's supposedly 66 degrees out - my ass, maybe in the shade it is, not in the sun. And, of course, the anthro lab and the computer lab are two of the hottest places on campus (imho), so I've been feeling the urge to crawl into a freezer.

I've been playing much Sims 2, currently raising the third(!) generation of my Legacy. It's a set of quadruplets: they all have brown eyes, Quinn and Sam are blond, Teyla has red hair, and Rorschach has brown hair. He also has darker skin than his siblings. And, in a move that is pure Rorschach, he managed to piss off the nanny so bad as a toddler that she keeps coming by and stealing the newspaper with him in a hate bubble. Smooth, Rory, smooth.

But most importantly, I have been reading Bloodhound, and it is awesome. Granted, I was once obsessed enough with counterfeiting to want to work the Secret Service rather than FBI, so I'm perhaps a bit biased. I also should get over rooting for Beka to get together with pretty much every guy she comes across.

1. Spent 60 bucks on Nerf gear.
2. Filmed video of Rorschach carsurfing.
3. Got kicked out of a mall and had the cops called.

...best. Weekend. EVER.

Animation Meme!

X what you saw
O what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions
Bold what you loved
Strike for what you disliked/hated
Leave unchanged if neutral X seems neutral because it just means you saw it, nothing else.
Leave unchanged if you never saw it at all


( THE LIST OF DOOM )

This wasn't on the list, but it was my all time favorite movie evar for the longest time:

FFN is down, which makes me sad.

I'm eating cream of wheat, which is delicious (okay, at this point it's more like lumpy milk with sugar, but w/e).

Yes I did sleep through the whole day of Sunday, what of it?

The narrator of Snapped on Oxygen is kinda hilariously overblown.

Blood drive on campus today, probably drop another pint there.

Feel like maybe I ought to watch one of the fifty billion shows I have downloaded... nah.

Have to do my paper revisions for later today. But that can wait.

A movie with Jackie Earle Haley and Kyle Gallner? I DON'T EVEN CARE THAT IT'S A HORROR MOVIE AND I CAN'T STAND HORROR, I AM SO WATCHING THAT SHIT.

So. I had to wake up at the ass-crack of dawn (better known as 8am, yes I really do never get up that early) in order to make it to work for class photos. Which was hilarious. I mean, you ever try getting 19 two year olds and six teachers (two of whom are the size of two people, and yes I am one of those) into one shot? Or, for that matter, try and get 19 two-year-olds to even look in the same direction at once?

We did manage it, by virtue of a quacking duck puppet. Of course, Mavie and Liam were cracking up hysterically, and Ronin and some others were pointing at it, so I'm not sure quite how it'll all turn out. But I got to hold Ro-ro, so I don't care!

But anyway, I now have three hours to kill before class. And I can't even play City of Heroes, due to the stupid school network. Oh well, time to break out the Sims/Pokemon/various emulator games/fanfics!