:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, July 03, 2003 ::

quizness and sleeplessness...
I have mega quiz catching up to do... It's now almost 4 am. I'm not tired. I've been up since early this morning and I'm wired. I can't sleep.

AURGH!!!!

Not to mention I have the stupid song from the Foxwoods in my head...

"The Wonder of it All"

"Take a chance... make it happen.
Pop the cork... fingers snappin'
Spin the wheel... Round and round we go!

"Life is good, life is sweet
Get yourself a front row seat
(forgot the words and hums...)

"Let's live for the wonder of it all!"

You are Sanguine - The ancient Greeks
believed this was caused by having too much
blood.

Strengths:	You are enthusiastic, talkative, expressive, and friendly.
Weaknesses:	You can be undisciplined, distractable, and have a tendency to exaggerate.
At your best:	You are an energetic spokesperson.
At your worst:	You can be an egotistical entertainer.
You measure your own value by:	Applause
For personal growth, you should focus on:	Restraint
For others to relate well to you, they should be:	Stimulating
Others should support your:	Ideas
If someone wants you to make a decision, they should give:	Testimonies

What Ancient Greek Personality Type Are You?
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Too much blood???

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FISH

What Form Does Your Patronus Take? A Harry Potter Quiz -- RESULTS W/IMAGES
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You are Eevee, the normal pokemon. You are very shy
and undecided about life, but one day you will
know just how you wanna be.

Pokemon: What Eeveeloution are you?
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FIRE is your chinese symbol!

What Chinese Symbol Are You?
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People are scared of me?

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Simply knowing you are there gives others a sense of security and continuity. You are a woman of few words and much wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond the surface that others are distracted by. However, you tend to find distractions for yourself to keep you from thinking about the bad times in your life. Try to solve your problems as soon as you can, so you can live life in genuine happiness.
Which Love Hina Girl Are You?

:: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 ::

woot
Google's hiring bloggers! I'm definitely applying. Hopefully, they're local positions. There's no location noted on the job descriptions.

for the third time this month
The cops came again today to talk to the people in 7 and the people in 11. Today, they took the wife from 11 with them when they left. No handcuffs and she was in the front of the car, so they didn't arrest her... I don't think. I wish I knew what was going on. It's really confusing.

Yes, I'm nosey. Mom and I opened the front windows and tried to hear what was going on. Of course, after calling the cops to your house three times, people are going to wonder what's happening. The thing that bothered me was, when they left with the woman from 11, the group standing near 7 all started clapping (the group included people from 8, 6, 13, and 15). One of the women from 8 even started singing, "Ding dong, the witch is dead..." The woman from 10 had a few choice words for them, which then resulted in a short, tit-for-tat style shouting match of "I'm better than you" type phrases. How joyful that was...

Now, my parents and I have never had a problem with the people who live in 11. However, I think this all started when the guy staying with them started dating and living with the woman in 7. She's a divorcee with a young son who's been living off the alimony and child support payments. From what I can tell, she has what seems to be no marketable skills anyway, and she spends her time "finding herself" instead of worrying about how she's going to support her kid. She insists on placing rocks everywhere around the commons in small decorative patterns (I have no idea where she gets all these rocks, but she trucks them back to her house in the back of her fairly new Caravan) and sitting outside to do everything from what looks like meditation (laying on the sidewalk in a white housecoat) to gardening (which includes cutting down a small tree with a band saw and then sawing it on her lap into smaller segments).

Mom and I have decided she's a bit looney. If you've seen half the stuff she does, you'd think so, too.

Anyway, this guy apparently had a falling out with 11, for the first cop showing involved a lot of yelling about getting a key to get his stuff from the "other house". It's a known fact that the couple in 11 own another house. Why they don't stay there all the time is beyond me. I would rather live someplace else, myself... but that's besides the point. Either way, this guy wanted his stuff back and the couple in 11 apparently wasn't letting him go get it by himself. Loopy goes and calls the cops (like she apparently does with everything, since her ex-husband is a cop) and it turns into an all out legal situation.

I happen to know for a fact that the women in 8 and the extended family in 6 are all fairly close to the lady in 7. They probably spend a lot of time together at the bus stop with the kids, and the kids are all pretty good friends when they aren't running around chasing each other and doing unwanted touching (girl from 6 tattled on boy from 8, saying he "keeps touching me!" once). So, the fact that they all stood there together supporting each other wasn't a surprise.

What bothered me was the applause. I don't know and don't want to know what happened. You don't applaud. It's kind of rude. Unless a murderer or rapist has been captured, you don't applaud. It just goes to show how trashy these peope are. I've seen things from these people's wardrobes that I really didn't want to. It's one thing to desire to be comfortable, but I don't go running out my front door in boxers and a wife beater, I would appreciate it if the woman from 8 didn't either. Especially when she's wearing her manly tubesocks with the stripe on top pulled halfway up her calves. I take the time to get dressed because I know that others can see me.

It's a condominium, for crying out loud. Not exactly what I'd call a private home. When I can look across the way and see into your kitchen with no effort whatsoever, it's *so* not private.

I can't wait until I can get out of here.

birthday blues
My dad's birthday is this Saturday. I don't know what I'm going to get him. Mom and I gave him the really cool present for Father's Day (the Broncos train). Then, his mother wanted to do a dinner get together, but she decided she wasn't up to entertaining and suggested a picnic over at the sportsmen's club. Well, Saturday shows a chance of late day thundershowers for the area. Not exactly picnic weather. Dad suggested Medieval Times. I like Medieval Times. Mom, while she likes it, too, wasn't thrilled with the idea.

Here's why:

1. Her mother may find out and get jealous that she wasn't invited, despite the fact that she would probably be miserable for the trip over, and probably wouldn't be able to sit in the chairs, and probably wouldn't be able to see the show very well. This assumed from her own words that she likes to say very often. Frankly, I don't want to be the one sitting next to her having to yell descriptions of the entire show to her the whole night. I love Nana, but she gets awfully frustrating and we're having a hard time telling if it's of her own doing or if it's for real.

2. It's a well known fact that my mother isn't very liked by my father's mother. Spending a long time in the car with her is not going to be a fun thing for my mother. They tolerate each other for the sake of a good time and to make my dad happy, but my mom will most likely not be happy.

3. Dad has not yet made reservations. It's Fourth of July weekend. The place is going to be jammed. Getting a lower level table on the end of the row is going to be hard. Grandma (nor Nana, for that matter) is not going to have an easy time getting up and down the steps or getting into a middle seat. They're tight and difficult to navigate. I'd hate to see what happens if someone has to go to the bathroom and we're not on the end. On top of that, last time we went, Mom had no problems climbing over the seats herself. Her hips aren't what they used to be either and I don't think it's going to be that easy for her this time.

So, there you have it. All in all, it should prove to be an interesting weekend.

God save me now...

:: Monday, June 30, 2003 ::

ponderings
I've been trying to decide if I want to do a webcomic. I've got these three stupid websites I got from StoresOnline with no ideas on what to do with them. They say that I need a credit card to start my own business. Oh right... like someone's going to be willing to give *me* credit. Riiiiiiight.

Of course, the problem I'm facing isn't the artwork. I've been working on my drawing style and I think I'm finally getting into something I like. I came out with some really good renderings of the five Gundam Wing pilots not that long ago. I tried drawing Relena earlier today, but didn't like how she came out. I still need to work on it, but I'm starting to settle into a definitive style.

The problem is a story. I have no idea on what I want to do for a storyline. I had thought about doing one of my books, but those are an awful lot like fanfictions. They resemble some other storylines from other authors a bit closely. Not identical, but I don't want any future problems.

I'm thinking I might actually have to try and come up with something completely different from what I've already done, which should be interesting. I'm so influenced by other things I read lately, it's hard to figure out where my true ideas end and the influenced ones begin. My creativity is there, but only for fan oriented fiction. Lord knows you can't do anything with fanfiction unless you offer it for free. If I make money off it, I'm infringing copywrite.

So, now what? Plus, I'm really only good at drawing people and the outdoors. I'm terrible at drawing anything technical, which includes inside rooms. I can't draw mecha, I can't draw cars... I still have some serious settling in to do if I want to make this legit. Not that it overly matters, since I've seen some make it big with extremely stylized drawings, stuff that isn't completely realistic looking. I could get away with some of it, but that's not me.

I'm picky about artwork. Maybe that means I'm shallow, but I find I enjoy a welldrawn cartoon a lot better than a badly done one, even if the storyline is identical.

{{shrugs}}

Either way, it's an idea I may eventually expand on, but I need some serious help in the storyline department...

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You belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at
heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry, Set
Gryffindors apart!


Hogwarts Sorting Hat
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Well, I always said I was borderline between the two... ^^;;

new meeting
They're having another website meeting next week sometime. I spoke to Rob on the phone today. He was surprised I missed yesterday's. I was surprised I missed yesterday's. ^^;; Heh.

on the search again
Well, I applied to a few more jobs today. Hopefully something will go through. I'm really tired of searching and applying only to hear back nothing or get some sort of "Your qualifications don't match this job, but we'll keep your résumé on file" response. It's very discouraging.

snapple "real fact" number 46
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

:: Sunday, June 29, 2003 ::

oops
I missed the website meeting today. Completely slept right through it. I'm not really surprised I did with the way I've been feeling.

I also totally forgot about the Rainbow meeting Friday night. Oh well. It's not like we would have done anything anyway.

mario's
I went over to Mario's in East Setauket last night. Cathy called me and asked me to come. I met up with her, Nick, Jen, and Vanessa. It's a pretty nice place. Jen wanted to play darts, but this other group was using the board after we were done eating. So, we left early. It was probably better that way because something didn't sit right with me and I ended up getting a bit sick when I got home.

mournful
Mom just got back from a funeral. A friend of hers from work was just married three months ago, and her husband was killed in a car accident. I just saw the picture from the news article on it. He had been changing the tire on his Ford Econoline van... the van looked like a regular car, it was so smashed. The guy that hit him was driving with a suspended license... that had been suspended for the first time back in 1983.

There was another crash last week. Someone Mom knows of at work, but doesn't really know her... her son had been killed, driving at 16 with just his learner's permit. He ran a stop sign. He and someone in the other car were killed, everyone else was treated and released from the hospital.

snapple "real fact" number 101
About one half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.

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YOU ARE...REMUS LUPIN! Finally, someone with some
common sense in the order. Good doggie.


Which ORDER OF THE PHOENIX member are you?
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Rawr.


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