prison for jerks

Today I didn't go to class, livejournal. I have decided that I have to announce to you whenever this happens. Between the shame of that, speshope's possible visit, and my mother's bribe, I feel that should be adequate for keeping me responsible for the rest of the term.

Here, have a random list I've been thinking about.

THINGS THAT WILL MAKE ME READ YOUR FIC: A LIST

( BY PEARL-O, AGE 23 AND 1/3 )

1) No work + sleeping in = happy Pearl

2) Ghirardelli peppermint bark, one of the best things about the holiday season

3) Getting some of the best pasta salad ever from New Seasons

4) Writing random filthy porn

5) Really cute incredibly comfy new pants

6) I kind of adore the completely grey dark rainy weather

7) Mikeyway. Just, you know. In general. MIKEYWAY.

8) Oh! Last night I had my first real fandom related dream. Surprisingly, it was about Panic! ( Possibly boring to people who aren't me? )

I mean, I would have preferred sexy make out times with somebody, but completely random and weird has its charms, too.

9) ( rockstar cool )

10) TIME TO WATCH MORE TV. My life, so hard.

YOU GUYS I AM ALL ALONE IN MY HOUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS AND IT IS AWESOME. My parents and sister are all at work and I have freeeeeeeeedom.

I am catching up on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me podcasts! And looking at pictures of Fall Out Boy dressed up as Panic! at the Disco! And eating Halloween candy! And looking at Pushing Daisies screencaps! And telling etben about the incredibly wretched stories I am craving, ie two completely different Pete/alwaysagirl-Mikey stories which ( I am not even sure which is more embarrassing )

Basically, all I need now is a Coca-Cola and life would be perfect. Well, that and actually succeeding at making a Pushing Daisies icon, because I want one of Chuck and Olive going "yay!" on the rooftop so bad I can taste it.

In conclusion, Hemmy would be a great half-brother, y/n?

So today my sister and I went out to Target, and of course the first thing to check is the one dollar bins, right? And I saw this there, and it freaked me the hell out badly enough that I almost bought it JUST SO I COULD SHOW YOU ALL. Seriously, what the hell?

I *also* went out with my sister yesterday, at which point I tried on these shoes, which. You guys. I am very much in a Wayne's World "They will be mine. OH YES. They will be mine!" place right now, because I am totally completely in love with them. I did not realize my life was incomplete without owls on my shoes, but it SO WAS. Not that I have any money whatsoever, but maybe an early birthday present?

I've gotten to the point where I have to stop brainstorming the fifteen different ideas I have going on and choose just one and commit to it for ds_match. It's still weirdly exciting! Usually at this point in a challenge I'm kind of hating myself. But I'm still really happy and eager for this, which is awesome. I think I'm going to go with the "daily word count assignment" strategy to make myself write. By this time tomorrow I will have finished X number of words! Woo! Note to self: obtain caffeinated beverages to assist in this process.

(Ds Match is also doing a lovely job distracting me from both DS Seekritsanta and Yuletide, both of which I've decided I'm better off not doing this year. I didn't do Yuletide last year, and the year before that I had to drop out; the stress of the challenge overwhelms the awesome for me when I write, so I'm better off just reading. Plus, the things I really love about challenges aren't as vivid when you have hundreds and hundreds of people signing up, because I like the feeling of knowing everybody. Which I've always had in DS Seekritsanta, and actually I have participated in it every single year since its inception! But I really think I can't handle the responsibility this year, so sigh, just a reader [and beta, probably] again.)

I have had the song "West Coast" by Coconut Records stuck in my head for like five days now. It could be worse.

I still mean everything I said about arranged marriage fic yesterday, by the way. TELL ME MORE.

+ tom kha gai, the food of the gods
+ Ray Kowalski
+ only two months left until graduation!
+ my comfy comfy bed
+ the story etben and I started plotting out on Friday
+ visiting roz_mcclure next week
+ the cuteness of David Tennant as the Doctor. (With his little glasses, and his sneakers, and awwww.)
+ fox1013 and hobbledehoy. Just in general.

I had more things I meant to put in that list, but I've forgotten what they were.

I find myself in one of those moods where I want to change everything and trim and clean and neaten it. Last night I got the urge to get rid of all my icons. I figure this is one of the things that is probably a passing urge I should not submit to, but if I keep feeling this way long enough, I might give in and see if I can trim down to just 20 or so that I really want to keep to express myself.

If I still feel edgy like this after that, maybe I'll erase all my lj interests and start from scratch.

I have noticed an annoying trend to my dreams lately. They seem to be all set-up, and never get to the good part! I have dreams about finally getting to a break, and having lots of vacation of excitements, except I only get the planning and annoying details and awful travel soul-killing bits, and wake up before the fun part. Or I dream about all the awkward stupid bits of dating and association with boys, without ever getting to the smooching. Not on, dreamscape. Not on at all.

I keep listening to the same eight Mountain Goats songs on repeat over and over and over and over. I need mooooooooooore. Help me, people! Help!

Elizabeth Taylor is bored of your shenanigans.

Here are some things that are awesome:

+ Naps
+ Thai food
+ Vacation!
+ Farscape
+ Robin Sparkles
+ Trolling other people's delicious accounts for good fic
+ roz_mcclure and juleskicks both getting into Due South
+ Linguistics
+ Zombies
+ Trashy romance novels
+ Less trashy regular novels that are still awesome
+ Pink glitter
+ Powell's City of Books
+ Cadbury creme eggs
+ Single digits left until Muskrat Jamboree!

But my favorite thing of all this evening, I have to say, is the very end of "Eclipse" in Due South. What could be better than Fraser wearing a dorky paper party hat on top of his head? I ASK YOU. Could it perhaps be the fact that Ray is also wearing his hat, only he is doing the thing where he's pushed it down behind his head to the back of his neck instead, like that makes it okay and he can actually seem cool? PERHAPS.

Things that are AWESOME: weekends with liviapenn, ficbyzee, and frostfire_17, lots of cookies, a mild amount of cuddling, and way too much TV watching.

Things that are less AWESOME: Turning on my computer last night and finding that Firefox has deleted or lost every single one of my bookmarks. (It's not a profile problem; I checked the profile manager first, and anyway, everything else, like my themes and extensions and other customizations, is still there. Just all the websites I need are gone! Bleh.)

Also, fox1013, I emailed you DAYS ago, and you have not replied yet. SHAME ON YOU. SHAME.

It is the week before Christmas, and I need F/K smooches and sexin'. Sigh!

Edit: fixed now yay!

1) Fic in the Thrillkiller universe?

2) I know I have shippers on my flist -- if I hypothetically wanted to see more Babs/Dick stuff, what comics you point me towards?

3) 92.5% on my math midterm, YAYS. That's with getting 3/5 on the stupid word problem, too. But I don't feel too bad about it, since apparently no one in the class got that one right.

4) Deadwood = squee. I still can't follow the plot. Femslash is yay. Molly Parker is gorgeous.

5) Read Spider-man Loves Mary Jane #1-7. Cuteness!

6) Can anyone point me to a download or a torrent for Runaways v2 (everything from 11, 12, and everything from 14 on) or Batgirl? Or, uh, more Green Arrow?

7) Fox has left me for the week. WAAAAAH.

8) People who a) don't have their websites up and b) don't have their fic easily accessible by lj memories = ERICA SADFACE.

9) I like Thai food, porny fannish AIM chatrooms, and used bookstores. Whee!

If you had asked me two hours ago whether my idiolect allowed use of the word boughten, I would have said "no way" without even thinking about it. And yet, I just stopped in the middle of writing an lj entry when I realized I had just said "The two shirts my mother had boughten me last week came in the mail today."

WEIRD.

(The shirts are way cute, though, so that's happy.)

Hello, friends list! I like Jennifer Garner and Sir Ian McKellen and the color pink and Benton Fraser and NC-17 fanfiction and drumstick brand ice cream cones and procrastinating on paper-writing and my new Cordy icon and babies and kittens and getting to see hobbledehoy for the first time in over a YEAR today! How are YOU?

My mother sent me money to go grocery shopping, and with careful budgeting there was enough for necessities such as toilet paper and olive oil and onions and enough to splurge on a Cadbury creme egg and some Coca-Cola. And when I got home, my Farscape season 2 was all done and ready for me to watch! And it's Friday!

*beams at you all*

Today is a GOOD DAY, people. If only I could figure out how to make myself a Farscape icon that doesn't look like crap, I would be totally happy! (Especially if it could be the John and Aeryn bit at the end of "Mind the Baby", because, mmm. But any Aeryn-centric would make me happy, really. Hmm.)