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Remember, remember

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:32:47 GMT

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!!!!!

*runs to watch the movie and hope to find explosives* :)

Fangirl squee (cont'd)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:54:51 GMT

I love me my fandoms.

So I grew up as the daughter of a Trekkie, and eventually became a fan of my own show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in turn, all of Joss Whedon's works--Angel, Firefly/Serenity, and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Purple Pimp, heehee). And lately that has turned into Dollhouse.

I love Dollhouse for two reasons:

1. It's Joss Whedon (and the premise of it is intriguing to me as a writer)
2. 2nd season is "all the actors of Battlestar Galactica decide to make a guest appearance", and Tahmoh Penikett is a regular. Helo was always my BSG favorite.

What makes Dollhouse even better than a Joss Whedon/BSG squee? Bringing in the Trekkie-ness!

Jonathan Frankes (Riker) will be directing the next episode of Dollhouse. He directed First Contact, and of the TNG movies, that is probably my favorite.

If only Friday would be here sooner...

S.O. ... F?

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:49:38 GMT

Save Our File

If anyone knows how to/knows of a converter that can convert a .VOB to something that Windows Movie Maker can use, it would be much a appreciated.

Dad needs it for work.

Thanks all!

Ode to Redshirt

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:02:12 GMT

Oh poor Redshirt, the security officer we knew so little, who died in order to prove just how fatal this mission to the plant's surface could be for our heroes despite the fact that they are the heroes and the audience subconsciously knows they are NOT allowed to die, at least not until the end of the season or perhaps the series finale.

Redshirt you will be missed. McCoy should have after years of kneeling next to a man, a hand on his throat, declaring, "He's dead, Jim.", noticed that there was in fact a trend, and it was the color of his shirt.

But seriously, if about one red shirt died per episode, think about the mortality rate on the Enterprise alone. Isn't that a statistic they publish? Why would any one willing join it's crew knowing that statistic? And how is it even possible for the ship to keep running when their crew was depleted so quickly?

If you have no idea who I am talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)

My mom has been kind and has decided to buy me one of the Starfleet shirts from the back of the cereal box. Seriously, the check is already written. And now I am torn between the gold captain's tee (which feels a bit presumptuous of me), the blue science and medical personnel shirt, or the red shirt (simply as an ode to Redshirt).

CHOOSE!

View Poll: Starfleet T-shirt Decision

HELP!!!!!

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:20:33 GMT

Ok so I have dear friends who have not seen the Icon about Tacos and Cedric, and I have been looking for literally hours now, and cannot find it to save my life, so please please please if any one of you have it, can link me to some one who does, email it to me, reply anything.

Seriously, this is hurting my brain.

Love!

Sun, 17 May 2009 15:29:23 GMT

Shamelessly swiped link to quiz from maramijade. I wanted to post because I love Uhura, and also so that all my fellow Trekkies could enjoy! :) Also to say that if you haven't heard from me in a week, I am still alive.

Your results:
You are Uhura

Uhura		75%
Deanna Troi		75%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		70%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		50%
Will Riker		50%
Data		46%
Mr. Scott		45%
Chekov		45%
Geordi LaForge		45%
Jean-Luc Picard		40%
Beverly Crusher		40%
Spock		37%
Mr. Sulu		35%
Worf		35%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		10%

You are a good communicator with a
pleasant soft-spoken voice.
Also a talented singer.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

No I haven't seen the movie yet. I've been too busy this week going through all my childhood possessions and trashing 10 black garbage bags full and donating the same amount is hard work. Not to mention going to my little sister's graduation Friday and babysitting for her last night. Aiden and I had a marvelous time. He slept for an hour and I read a book. For it being my first time babysitting an actual baby/changing diapers/feeding him bottles, I think it went splendidly. I love my 5 month old nephew!!!!

Progress

Sun, 03 May 2009 02:54:13 GMT

i is making it.

Ok, so until this week I hadn't worked on my senior seminar paper at all since having completed the presentation. What I found out was that the presentation is my paper. I did so much work for the presentation that I am not doing as much as I thought I would when it came to paper time.

See last weekend or so, I took all of my slides from my powerpoint presentation and wrote them all in a word document in outline form, which was good. It got me 3 pages of outline. I thought that was awesome. Then in the middle of the week. I started going back in an adding in subpoints all the information from my note cars. By note card 6, I got my outline up to 4 1/2 pages long, and I have 23 note cards. So today I sat down and wrote in all of the other note cards, the things I said during the presentation, and the things I forgot to say, and there were a few paragraphs worth of information for some bullet points, which was awesome because now my single spaced outline is 13 pages long.

If I remove the bullet points and change the single spacing to double as is required for the paper, it is 21 pages long, and by the time I go in, take out all the titles and add my introduction, clean up my conclusion, and all the transitional bits between the different points, I am pretty sure I am going to have my 25 pages. And all of it came out of my head!!!! Which was pretty freaking awesome.

Now here is my biggest problem: citation.

oh damn....

Yay for good Karma and Easter

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:31:32 GMT

NEW DOCTOR WHO THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!

Public Notice

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:13:30 GMT

Reasons Why You May Not See Me Much Starting This Friday:

1. BSG!
2. Exec Board Plotting night, a.k.a. getting things set up for new exec board
3. SGA "info" session night Monday, followed by class and meetings.
2. My Marketing prof is making us watch a video of a person being euthanized (sp?)
3. Wednesday will be spent studying my ass off in prep for Thursday
4. 15 minute talk about the euthanized man followed by our first Marketing Exam on Thursday
5. Which is directly followed by two hours of work and my Money and Banking Midterm
6. Writing and revising resumes with cover letters and the works with Career Services so that I can seek a Job during Spring Break so I won't be poor this summer.
7. Packing for Spring Break next Friday
8. Searching for a job all of Spring Break.

UPDATE: Add "Write a paper for my banking class before Tuesday" and "Road Trip this Weekend" in there. Sorry this is mostly so I don't forget to do anything.

So if you don't see me much, this is the reason why. So don't fret, I am not dead, but it looks like I shall be very very busy....

Just for fun

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:48:05 GMT

If you loved the Muppets as much as I did, you should read this:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/02/10/mf.muppet.favorites.stories/index.html?eref=rss_us

Senior Sem -- Hip Hip Hurray!

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:26:26 GMT

"II. Literature (or other art forms) as mythology

• New media, such as cinema or video/computer games, in which mythic inheritances are displaced into invented worlds inhabited by antagonists who are irreconcilable to one another—hence a mythical logic of eternal and unremitting struggle accompanied by an ideology of annihilation, and the deeply conservative pessimism this entails."

From our Senior Sem paper assignment. Star Wars here I come. While I am not sure about anything past "in which myth", I am sure I can convince him of my idea.

I will probably though go for a religion in Star Wars (Force), it's origins (Christianity, Buddhism), and it's influences (Censuses for Australia, England, Wales, Scotland, and Canada) as well as using this to be able to actually use a wiki as a reference in a Scholarly paper (wookiepedia) and to re-watch all the Star Wars movies in order and actually be doing research. Huzzah!

And Lierin, I demand that you come to our senior sen and write about Oblivion. Please?

What is one word for...

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:47:17 GMT

purification by fire, or OMG purging fire of GOD! Cause I can't think of one word to cover all that.

Fail.

Surveys from QC

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:12:26 GMT

Got through the top six, and I know there are no names, but I know who wrote them, just because I am beginning to know the members that well. Odd.

weird

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:09:03 GMT

So today was my last normal shift of the semester at the Crescent. I am working again tomorrow to pick up the last of my hours but an odd thing happened.

The Crescent is half lit, and I am tapping shut the second to the last box, and Tracy is about to start detailing what we will do next as we are the only two people down there, and this girl walks in and asks, "Is this where we pick up the yearbook?"

Tracy and I look at all the boxes towering over us and look back at her and try not to laugh. Tracy told the girl she could pick one up next semester, and she came back with I'll be at Harlaxton. *facepalm* we have no idea which box they could be in, let alone are not doing to unpack to find them. We told her to come back to the new place next week after we started unpacking.

Silly people.

Then Tracy and I took a few things over to the new place on our own, plants and such, and she detailed what I would be doing tomorrow because I am one of the only two work studies working tomorrow. So I have to call her to find out when I work. It will be weird going to a new location to work. It looks all weird.

FINAL BABY UPDATE

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:41:26 GMT

Ann is good. Baby is good. Meghan is tired, but still must write this paper. Coffee is not working. People make fun comments.

Tee hee.

well final until I get pictures...then there will be no end to the posting.

BABY UPDATE

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:22:46 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AIDEN MY NEPHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is born!

1:16 a.m. 8 pounds 8 oz. 21 inches. Dark blue eyes like violet. They will probably be brown.

in other news, I am freaking still stressed. Ann got to like 5-6 cm and then stayed like that for a few hours then the Doc said C-section. But she will still be out for another half hour.

GAH<<

I have a law paper due tomorrow, a paper which is not happening. Too focused on other things.

PS: Thanks for the comments on the last post. A lot of the worry is gone. Now I just gots to wait for Ann to wake up and be oks then things will be fine. Wow? Am I really this tired? It's not even 1 in the morning. Shame. My insomniac days are long gone...

BABY NOW

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:32:17 GMT

My sister is going to the hospital right now to give birth to my nephew. OMG OMG OMG OMG>

What am I supposed to do right now? I need to run around and do something but I have class in like an hour and a half and I can't think straight. And why don't I have a car?

AND I KNEW HE WOULD BE EARLY AND ALL MY FAMILY TOLD ME HE WOULD BE LATE! TAKE THAT!

Fretting

Fun

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:54:05 GMT

http://plangkye.deviantart.com/art/Super-Sailor-Slytherin-41784249

tee hee hee.

I must show Dan.

OMG OBAMA

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:56:35 GMT

Sent that text to a bunch of people last night.

I also want to say, I am proud of America (Good Job!), because that is history and we got to watch it.

North Carolina is obviously conflicted because it came out dead even. And most states were very close, only a few percent off in most cases. Ok, I checked it, Obama got slightly more votes in that state, so I don't know why they haven't given it to him.

Also in the lines of history, the two states that I consider home states, Florida and Indiana, the ones that have always, always, always gone red, have in fact impressed myself and other because for the first time in a very long time, both states went BLUE!

OMG AMERICA! INDIANA IS BLUE! FLORIDA IS BLUE!

And let me just say, every time he said "Yes We Can" I was totally thinking "So Say we All". Because while the human race wasn't just decimated by Cylons, but we have been decimated by economy and things in general, and you have to get people cheering and hopeful again, and I think he did that with "Yes We Can."

Very nice. Very nice.

On a last note: Fifth of November? If I had been thinking we would have bought fireworks to shoot off at midnight. Silly me. I still have this need for fire or something similar.

a post

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:13:34 GMT

I'm not dead.

Doctor Who was good.

Ok. Thanks. Bye.

My Turn

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:21:23 GMT

OK so EVERYONE has been commenting on their earthquake stories, and if you don't think I am going to get my two sense in, you are mistaken my friend.

First, let's go to the txt messages I sent out today.

The first one directly after the shake, was sent to Leroy and reads: Omg. that was so cool and odd. we just had an earth quake. how are you? (4:40 am, three minutes after I woke up to the shaking)

2. To dad: We just had and earth quake. I'm fine. Have a nice dad.

Dad replied (he is near Cincinnati mind you) that he felt them too. Giving the quake a near 300 mile radius. Thats the Ravenclaw in me, always coming up with the facts.

3. Hey mom. we just had and earthquake. I'm fine. everyone is ok. love you and have a nice day.

She didn't reply so I called her about noon.
"Hey mom. How are you? Did you get my text this morning?"
"No. I must have missed it. What did it say."
" 'Hey mom, we just had an earthquake--"
"WHAT?"
"No! I'm fine. everyone is fine. Promise!"

It took a half an hour to calm her down and keep her from panicking.

So let's go back in time to the moment (4:37) that woke me up. Abby is correct in stating that it sounded like someone was trying to get in out door. Then i heard the drawers under my bed rattling. I sat straight up. before i could think, the first image in my head was from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season four "Doomed". She and Riley are in an earthquake and race to the closet doorway. Yes, i suppose my mind does work in a "what would buffy do?" way.

"Abby! We're in an earthquake; we should go to the doorway! Abby! We're in an earthquake; we should go the doorway!"

Then I realized my shouting kinda probably added to making her as unnerved as she was. Then we kind noticed nothing was falling, and things were just shaking. So we stayed in bed and rode it out which was pretty fucking cool. Note this is not my first quake.

After it stopped. I txted people, tried to calm both Abby and Lierin down. Tried to keep Dad and Leroy (who replied) from freaking out on my behalf.

Abby and I got to talking.

"That was my first earthquake."
"It's not mine."

I felt so Buffy right then. Figures I can manage to geek out any situation.

And that aftershock was while I was at work trying to do tearsheets. Sciccors and earthquakes are UN-MIX-Y things!!!

I think to sleep at 6-6:30.

PS: LIERIN AND COREY AND JASON: WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME ABOUT DOCTOR NESS?????

Mostly for Me

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:38:20 GMT

I'm posting this mostly so I don't loose this link. I need it for a paper that I am writing, but feel free to check it out.

http://www.usa.siemens.com/answers/en/

it's how siemens intends to bring the world more effecient, evironmently friendly energy.

What do CSI and duct tape have in common?

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:24:27 GMT

Oh, all of you fans of duct tape and CSI and other such grand things, come here and lament with me.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/fun_with_asbestos_csi_fingerprinting_kit.php

*tear*

So what is it that they have in common???

ASBESTOS!!!!

Side tracked

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:51:30 GMT

Ok so I should be doing my astronomy homework which was apparently assigned on friday (the assignments appear on the website), but when I checked last friday I didn't see a thing. And now it exists and is due tomorrow, as I found out two hours ago, and I want nothing more than to go to sleep. So I am typing to keep myself awake.

Ummm, Leroy visited this weekend which was great 'cause I really was not expecting to see him so soon. Talked to Dad and friends from back home which was also good. Watched a crazy game of LoTR risk by three other ravenclaws. Bought more art supplies though I am still NOT done buying yet. Ran around in the rain. Mostly from building to car and back again. It was fun. Sat in every desk chair they had at Staples. Got to eat potato skins with some potato chips for my dinner. Excellent times all of it.

God, I just wish I could sleep.

Back to forcing myself to do the homework for the four credit class. Go Meghan GO!

Of Days and Dots

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:28:01 GMT

So I woke up at 7:30 this morning to get my shower and head over to Ben Franklins to get a few more supplies for my art class. I got there around 8:30, so I sat down and waited and walked around letting the slow half hour pass until the store would open according to the store hours sigh. Nine came and went and at five after they were still not open. It was then I realized that today is Labor day. Annoyed I walked back to campus, fiddled with my computer which has decided not to work at all anymore (for the most part), and came down to work at the crescent to type this up.

As for dots, it's not really a dot, it's a spot. I've literally been in the Lady Mcbeth sort of a mind frame due to this spot on my hand. What spot is it? Well if you must know it is from the ever clever Dunnigan Dinning hall. Oh yes, I got dinner last night, have washed my hands many times and even showered and yet this damned little blue hand persits to exist on my own hand! Sorry, but they REALLY need a new system. I don't want a permant blue spot on my hand for the rest of my life.

At as of ten I won't get a free moment until four, and I have agreed to man the booth at the picnic tonight from 4-7, so I'll be busy all that time. No I don't even get lunch today. I work that hour here at Studnet Pub, and I have to train someone. It isn't likely I'll get the chance to run down to Union and grab something, but I am hopeful.

end rant.