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November 11th, 2011
11:11 am - Make a Wish
If you hang around me much you'll notice that I compulsively exhort people to make wishes at 11:11. If 11:11 is a good time for wishing, it seems that 11/11/11 11:11 would be even better. So this is up here to remind me to do something - a party, perhaps - to celebrate that day and wish hard.
This was posted on May 30th, 2007. Only 4 years and change to go.
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April 16th, 2010
10:32 pm - Cause I'm thoughtful like that/Yes, of course you can trust me with that information
That screened comments post I mentioned earlier. For all that information you want to give me so you and/or others can come to a rocking party, but don't want to leave lying around on a public post.
Edit: This is starting to really come in handy. Therefore, let it be known throughout teh intarwebs that this post has been promoted to the new and exalted status of The Post of Secrets.
If you have something you need to tell me but don't want anyone else to know, here's the place to put it.
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April 19th, 2008
03:51 am - F minus
I fail at life.
This past week has been an exercise in not taking advantage of opportunities, not contacting people, and otherwise doing stupid things - kind of like my usual issues, but worse. Perhaps not coincidentally, this past week has also been witness to impressive bouts of mania and insomnia. Right now my brain chemistry is distressingly out of whack.
Also, I put my new, beloved, too-expensive-to-replace phone through the washer tonight.*
In 2 hours I leave for a somewhat last minute cruise. I'll be gone for a week. No phone, no email, no contact with the outside world. With any luck, I'll come back from it somewhat renewed, maybe even with a plan to help me figure things out. Who knows, I might even have a divine revelation and learn how to resurrect my phone. However, for now I offer the following: To everyone I've let down recently, I'm sorry. I'll apologize better in person once I get back, but please know that you're on my mind. Especially you, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wispfox.
*I cried when I found it.
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April 10th, 2008
02:32 pm - Self-esteem Geometry
Given:
a) You are pretty, even when completely schlubbed out.
b) You are currently not even a little schlubbed out.
c) You have suffered no major deformities since the last time someone told you that you were pretty.
Then according to the theorem "use logic, idiot girl":
You must be pretty at the least today.
QED
Who says math isn't fun?
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April 7th, 2008
02:31 am - Tonic-clonic should be a band name
Things I wanted to learn about today:
ASL grammar and vocab.
Things which I learned about instead:
Seizures.
So... this morning I had a seizure. It was a grand mal or tonic-clonic, i.e. the kind of seizure with convulsions and passing out. If you're sitting there thinking "wow, devoken, I didn't know you had seizures", join the club. This was my first one. I hope it will be my last, because it was a) bloody terrifying, b) bloody painful, and c) really screwed up the rest of my day.* Post-ictal states suck.**
I am fine now. I spoke with a neurologist, and he essentially said "nothing to be done right now, we'll have to get you in ASAP, though", which is kind of what I expected. Right now there's not a lot of solid information, and so (barring a repeat occurrence) waiting for my regular neurologist (the one I spoke to was on call in my doctor's office) seems like the best course. I don't even have sufficient information to reasonably hypothesize about what might have triggered it. (Unreasonable hypotheses I have in spades, though. So far the one that's winning is that it was all Smoove's fault. I was reading his column at the time, and we all know that he sends women into convulsions.) While I am impatient to get more information, I'm doing okay in this nebulous nothing-is-known stage. It's times like these that I am glad to be an optimist.
That's about it. You're welcome to details if you want them (assuming you're not being creepy about it - nosy is fine, creepy is not), and feel free to ask questions in the comments. I'll probably make another post when I know more, though.
*galaneia, chaiya, hakadamare, rk624, volantwish, this is why I missed class.
**I have a had killer headache ever since. Ibuprofen didn't even touch it.
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March 26th, 2008
01:13 pm - Tickets nailed down
I'll be in Ecuador (near Guayaquil) from June 25th through July 5th, working at a mission. After that I'm going to try to squeeze in a few days in Panama City visiting friends, and then home.
Now all I have to do is learn Spanish. Luckily, I have new_man for a friend, and since he's such a lovely, obliging person, he's teaching me.
As a side note, it's amazingly relaxing to know that I have finalized my travel plans. This is not because I was stressed out about making them work; it's just that I'm more relaxed knowing that I will get my travel fix this year. I have weird addictions.
P.S. new_man, you rock.
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March 18th, 2008
02:00 pm - That's no good
Apparently my computer no longer recognizes discs. Not CDs, not DVDs, not blank discs of any format.
Naturally, I discovered this after gleefully attempting to rip a CD that I'd waited weeks for. Weeks. Murphy, I don't love you.
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March 15th, 2008
01:31 am - Lizard Storage, or The Sandals of Eternal Life
In response to a couple of questions on this post (and because I think it's a reasonably amusing story), here's the background/explanation of my userpic. ( Beware, it's long. I am entirely too verbose. )
Current Music: The Offspring - Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
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12:50 am - More Nerdidays!
Beware the ides of March!
However, you should also have fun on them. Just please don't stab anyone. Especially not me.
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March 14th, 2008
01:59 am - Nerd Holidays are the Best
Happy Pi day! Do lots of fun math and eat circular foods!
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March 11th, 2008
04:33 pm - Sick day
The one thing I hate about being hourly is the lack of sick time. See, today I'm losing a bunch of money because I'm too dizzy to stand up for more than 15 minutes at a stretch. This especially sucks because there's nothing I can do about it. I would happily drug myself into functionality, but I have yet to discover anything that combats my body's need to fall down.
On the upside, I have discovered a new game thanks to caulay and I have a bunch of books I should be reading to fulfill my new year's resolutions. So I'm not bored, just frustrated.
(An aside to my body - my being "merely" frustrated does not mean that you get to continue to misbehave. I've been sick too frequently recently, and it is getting on my/our nerves. Shape up.)
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March 10th, 2008
03:06 pm - Who summoned Sweet?
If I were the conspiracy theory type I might feel the need to look for reports of spontaneous combustion after seeing this. As it is, I'm just utterly charmed by it.
Current Music: Once More, With Feeling - Walk Through the Fire
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March 4th, 2008
12:34 pm - Saturday, or Part 1 of Returning to LJ
I spent Saturday hanging out with metahacker. It's been a while since he and I have had a chance to spend any decent amount of time together just the two of us, and it was really good to get to do that. We'd hoped to take a walk, but it was cold and wet most of the day so we drove around, got ourselves a little lost, and explored a mall. He was even nice enough to let me drag him to a shoestore so I could browse for something suitable for asdr83's and laurion's wedding. After we'd talked ourselves out we grabbed a wispfox and headed out to a dinner filled with hilarity and geeking out in odd ways, due in no small part to a highly, highly distracted yours truly. Several things of note came out of that excursion:
1) It is quite possible to have thought-provoking and insightful conversations about difficult topics that are also punctuated with things like "now *that's* a sexy heel".
2) Motion is excellent for talking.
3) I can run in anything, including 3 inch stiletto heels. Because I am amazing.
4) metahacker is not only remarkably insightful, he also learns and updates his reactions remarkably quickly. Because he is amazing.
5) If there is a question which would normally provoke thought and discussion, wispfox has probably already figured it out, and I probably agree with her interpretation.
6) Guacamole is crack.
7) I already knew this, but I love hanging out with those two. That was a really fun day.
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January 29th, 2008
01:37 pm - Resolved, just a month late
I make resolutions every New Year, but this year I'm making some of them publicly. I don't know why - maybe I've just become more of an exhibitionist.
1. Read more books.
1a. Keep track of books read.
2. Be vigilant about staving off deep depressions.
2a. Which means exercise 5 days/week, take meds like clockwork, always go to therapy, and write.
3. Be a better friend.
3a. Initiate plans, follow through, think more
4. Learn everything possible about sleep, with heavy bias towards the biology of sleep.
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January 24th, 2008
11:38 pm - It boggles the mind sometimes
There's lots that I could write about Arisia, which should come as a shock to no one. Almost too much, really. So, I'm going to do this in bits and start with the most important thing, which is: Arisia is a crazy roller coaster of awesomeness, to be sure. However, among all that awesomeocity and roller-coasterity (why yes, I do enjoy making up nouns - whatever made you ask?) there is one emotion which sticks with me through the whole con - gratitude. If Arisia does nothing else for me, it reminds me that I have a multitude of really amazing friends. There are people who care about me and I damn lucky to have them. Damn lucky indeed.
You rock, everyone. :)
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January 7th, 2008
02:26 am - A quarter century is worth celebrating, right?
So, my birthday is coming up. I have a strong need to make this birthday really fun, because I am avoiding a pattern. Conveniently, there is a high base level of fun on that day anyway, as my birthday is Arisia Sunday. However, I'd like to make things extra fun, so I want to do something at Arisia. Unfortunately, I'm crap at party* brainstorming. (I mean, so far my best idea has been to wear one of those cone birthday hats. That's it.) Implementation I can handle, but I need a muse. Any ideas?
*for a broad definition of party
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January 5th, 2008
04:27 pm - Timing is...
When you decide that it is really, definitely time to eat something and walk into the kitchen to forage right as your neighbor walks in your door with a huge tupperware of delicious homemade goose risotto, which he wants to give to you because "it will crowd his fridge".
Well, let it never be said that I facilitate overcrowding.
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01:01 am - There are always holes in my perspective
from metahacker
Give me a suggestion for something to do in the coming year that is 2008. Large, small, serious, silly -- but really mean that you think I ought to do it.
After all, you all are my friends because (among other reasons) I think you have interesting ideas.
Current Music: Great Big Sea - Fast As I Can
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January 3rd, 2008
01:37 am - *lurch* booooooks
12 point Times New Roman
8.3" x 5.8"
>300 pages
2.5 hours
Not my best, but still good. It's nice to be able to do something well, even if it's not a particularly useful or unique skill.
Next up: learn to be skilled in not needing to prove yourself to yourself. And more books!
(on the upside, this is far less hazardous to my health than my last method of demonstrating competence: carrying furniture larger than myself up turn-y/narrow staircases. Of course, that was more entertaining, too...)
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December 29th, 2007
06:27 am - This post brought to you by the Bureau of Useless Rambling
Another night gone. It's bittersweet, this not-sleeping thing. Bittersweet and lonely and so limiting in terms of activities. All the same, I think I prefer it. I hate to not be able to experience things. My inner control freak, I guess - though perhaps information freak is a better term for me.
Yeah, information freak. I think I'll keep it. (And yes, I promise to feed it and give it water and take it for walks three times a day.) After all, I've never had any problems with labels, so long as I'm allowed to pick most of them. What's one more? :)
On a side note, I have to say that it's impressive how much a lack of sleep increases navel-gazing. It's also impressive how little I care that I am making boring posts. Aren't you all so lucky to have me on your friend lists?
Current Music: Great Big Sea - Boston and St. John's
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