Nothing To See Here; Move Along

[xifeng]

Good things:
+ I have new earrings. The 'Mart clearanced a whole bunch of them. I don't get a discount on anything that's been clearanced, but they're cheap enough that it doesn't matter.
+ Lol-Mart only wasted 4½ hours of my time tonight, and I have short shifts until my next day off.
+ I started to get back on the wagon with eating properly.
+ The Shell station is hiring; it's nothing fancy or anything I really want, but it would be full-time, which I need, and it would be overnights, which I can deal with.
+ I have batteries for my CD player.
+ I find it really entertaining that, because I have Latin (the language) listed as an interest on my profile, the ads are all like, "MEET LATIN BEAUTIES FIND THE LATIN WOMAN OF YOUR DREAMS!!!!." Lololol.
+ Hey, jurhael, I don't know if you remember this Sue-we stumbled upon her a few years back during your HoND period-but she finally got sporked, if you haven't seen it yet.


Meme from samanosukesgirl:

+ First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

+ Second: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag whoever tagged you.

Have you ever lied to a teacher/boss to get out of a deadline?
No. In the workplace, I've said, "I can't do this right now AND THIS IS WHY," but I've never flat-out lied.

What kind of magazines do you read?
Mostly cooking magazines (Cooking Light and Vegetarian Times), but I read Victoria and Allure religiously as well. Yeah, I know. I am just that secure in my masculinity. :D

(There are other magazines that I read but not on a regular basis--usually news and politics magazines and literary fagrags. I'll spare you a complete listing. Only then can you be happy. :D)

What's your current favorite song?
My perpetual favorite song is "Janie Jones" by the Clash. I occasionally get hankerings for a particular song from time to time; most recently, it was "Shambala" by Three Dog Night.

What's really creepy?
Clowns. Spiders. Spider clowns.

What are you currently reading?
I have several books going at once, so: Jerusalem (Cecelia Holland). The Stone Boy and Other Stories (Thich Nhat Hanh). The Religious Case Against Belief (James P. Carse). Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings (Bernard Berelson and Gary A. Steiner). Aliens: 3 Novellas (ed. Ben Bova).

What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Rurouni Kenshin and Russian history. Bizarre combination, but I woke up two days in a row craving both like mad, so there 'tis.

What are you listening to right now?
The chirping of crickets--literally. You can't have summer in Indiana without it.

What are you most excited for?
Short-term? My next day off, and/or the next missive from H.

What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Wikipedia (I am such a wikifag it isn't funny). LiveJournal. Gmail. Anything else depends on what I'm feeling like.

What was the last thing you bought?
Raspberries for the salad I'm making tomorrow. Also, batteries.

What was the cutest thing you've seen today?
My cat, waiting outside my bedroom door for me to get up and start moving around. Callice is way happier to see me than anyone should be.

Does the weather affect your mood?
It can, but doesn't always. I don't have SAD or anything that I know of.

What is your zodiac sign?
Cancer according to Western astrology; Monkey according to Chinese. The Chinese assessment of my character is more accurate, but that still doesn't change the fact that astrology is total bunk.

Do you want to learn another language?
Yes! I know a few words in Cantonese at the moment and remember parts of my scattered college Russian and Greek. I am a much better Latinist now that duokinneas wants things translated than I was at university, though.

5 things you can't live without:
1.) Books.
2.) Coffee.
3.) Pens and paper. (One is more or less useless without the other.)
4.) The people I love.
5.) Fish.

What's the meaning of life?
Hell, I don't know. It's different for everyone.

What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I'd like to forgive you, but I can't.

If you weren't doing this meme, what would you be doing instead?
Something productive, probably. :D

Say something to the person who tagged you:
Hi, Shannon! :D

I opt for the Great Cop-Out and hereby tag anybody who wants to do this meme, except for Shannon.

Comments

[samanosukesgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi!!" works. :D

My memory is fuzzy. You do remember me changing my username, right? Like, it wasn't a shock? You knew who I was right away? HURRAY FOR LITHIUM!! :C

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Everybody enjoys cheery greetings! :D

I think you changed your username before I went on hiatus, but given that I don't know any other big TK fangirls, I quickly deduced that samanosukesgirl could belong to only one person. :DDD

[samanosukesgirl.livejournal.com]

Wut ^ wut ^!! Or, as a sign off, "LOL, Mom". My Mother thought it meant "lots of love".

April, I do believe it was when I changed my name. I must be his biggest Canadian fangirl, too. :D He's in my back pocket as I type this.

Don't mind me if I randomly ask questions like that or "I dunno if I told you/I can't remember if I said this but". Actually, I need to say that to all my LJ friends. I need to get my memory back up to par. I know I have repeated myself and I know I will repeat myself.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

My mother is well aware that she is referred to as the lolmom in my LJ. That is why, when I transcribe dialogue, her part always begins with "lol" (even if it was never actually said or implied in real life).

You've mentioned your memory fail before, so I'm not really bothered by it. I can adjust for people :)

[samanosukesgirl.livejournal.com]

I dun think my Mother would have that kind of humour. I think I would flail embarrassingly if she were to write, "BB, Mom", thinking that the BB internets lingo would stand for "bye bye".

I knew that. I really did. Honest. AND FOR TRUE!! :o But DO feel free to make mention "yeah, you mentioned that before" so that it'll HELP me try not to repeat myself. Or, beat me with an internet stick? (huh what?)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Lolmom isn't as clueless as most other parents, though not Int0rbuttz-savvy like people our age; she can generally get it to do what she wants it to do. (She has an English degree, so she doesn't use the slang. Otherwise, we might need to have the conversation that goes, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.")

I've got the Internet stick! I know if I can hit it once, I can hit it twice...

[samanosukesgirl.livejournal.com]

She must go nuts when she sees "ETA" and realises that it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean. I have a BA in BS. I use it well. ^__^ My Grandmother is 72 and understand intarwebby lingo. Why, I also happen to know someone who's a school chum of my Mother's who uses net lingo all the time.

Internet stick wut wut (in the butt?).

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

At a party tonight, my friends kept asking me to translate their sentences into Japanese, and our other friend to translate them into Vietnamese, and I thought of you and your Latin. I somehow doubt that the sentence, "Bushwalking is my favorite sport," or the sentence, "Help me! There's a bat on my head," would be as concise in Latin as they are in English, but they're definitely...interesting examples of things to translate.

I just thought of that as I saw that response about Latin and Cantonese. In my Korean class, I sit behind a girl who speaks some Cantonese (she mostly speaks Mandarin), and it's interesting to hear her compare Cantonese and Mandarin to Korean.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing but before I forget, you can use olive oil instead of butter in the salmon burgers. It contains heart-healthy fat!

If anything, they might be more concise in Latin; the Romans were wont to omit superfluous words when it was pretty clear who was doing what. (There's a whole art to Latin epigraphy, which makes me really glad I'm not an epigrapher.) That's what case endings on verbs are for. :D

You are taking Korean now? Is my fresh-baked ukemuffin trying to show me up with her 1337? ^_- ♥

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

ORLY? I'm taking that tip, then! Olive and vegetable oils are the only oil allowed in my brother's diet.

I know so little about Latin. No matter how much I read and try to figure out, I don't actually use it or actively pursue it beyond reading, so it's impossible to remember cases and declensions and all those other things. ¬_¬6

I'm taking Korean to fill in for a semester without Japanese. The last Japanese class I need to take is only offered in spring and summer, so I wanted to take a language and figured Korean, being the closest living world language to Japanese, would be a safe bet. It's hard. I shudder to think of your adventures with Cantonese. That has to be even harder than Korean!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Olive oil is good food.

It's an Indo-European language (like English), so it's not too horribly hard to figure out, which I'll never convince you of. I think I'm a far better Latinist now that you demand to know what things mean than I was at university. ("I don't know why anybody would expect me to know Latin," the Little Pink Seahorse said. "Lee translates it all for me anyway." She then blew a bubble.)

Korean is a language isolate! Nobody knows from whence it came, or what its mission is! XD Cantonese takes some getting used to, because it's not an Indo-European language (obv.), and I have to make up mnemonic devices to remember the Cantonese reading for hanzi and so on.

[tara]

...now I'm going to have nightmares about Spider Clowns D:

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Didn't you read (or see) It? Because that pretty much sets off the Nightmare Meter right there. D:

[tara]

Yeah, It is one of my favourite horror books :) Horror doesn't really get to me as much as my mind does, though :D

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

That's why I don't read horror--my imagination is lurid enough as is :D

[jurhael.livejournal.com]

Wow! Bout time! Thanks for letting me know!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I know, right? XD