Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone, whether they're single or dating or whatever, is having a wonderful day. It really doesn't have to be about romance. Adam and I watched Galaxy Quest and played Magic: The Gathering for two hours. He kicked my ass. Other cinematic attempts involved Appaloosa, which just wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping - there's a reason Jeremy Irons isn't on the cover of the DVD, and that's because he's barely in the movie at all! And to be honest, that's the entire reason I wanted to see the damn thing. Also, Renee Zellweger is just difficult to look at - she doesn't really belong, visually, in a western. We watched maybe the first half hour of the film and then gave up. By then it was too late to start another movie, so once again we are putting off watching La Vie en Rose. Eventually we'll get to that one. Eventually.

I found this wonderful organizational word processing program, geared specifically toward novelists. So far I've had lots of fun playing around with it, and I've actually gotten some, you know, work done. It's called yWriter5 and pretty much rocks, although I am still getting used to the controls and the organization. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on macs, so I was unable to share its pure awesomeness with my other writer!geek friend, Katie.

We finally got the computer recovered from its massive grand-mal seizure, which was nice, because my laptop was having periodic aneurysms, also known as the horrible BSOD, every so often and for no apparent reason. So now Sharp Tooth is running Windows 7 and so far I love it. Little Foot is going back into hibernation.

But yes, I'm back up there with my Google Chrome and my Trillian Astra and my iTunes, and as I'm typing this, World of Warcraft is downloading, just in time for my last day (tomorrow) of playtime before my account expires. I'm absolutely broke, but then again, Blizzard Entertainment has given me the month away from writing that I needed, so kudos to them.

I'll leave you with this picture of my favorite actor of all time. He captured my heart when I was seven years old and he was bossing around hyenas. Since then he's just been pretty frakking awesome. I love Adam with all my heart, but Jeremy Irons, I wish you were my valentine. XD

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Febrooary

Okay, just kidding, I didn't talk to you yesterday but I'm seriously going to talk to you now!

Really there's only one thing that you can blame my absence on, and that would be World of Warcraft. I know, I know, I really don't have the cash to be spending on it, and it eats my time up and I stay up too late and I'm much less likely to get my work done, but I needed something to do to keep me from working on deAngelis for a while, so I did the only thing I could think of, and that was to shell out $15 to Blizzard Entertainment and reactivate my account for a month.

I made a new toon on a new server so that I could play with everyone from the ISU RPGuild. So far it's going okay. My first toon, when I started playing WoW, was a human warrior, and Lordy could I tank. However, after three and a half years of playing the damn game, I have still only gotten Kefirah (on Stormrage) to level 61. Yes, I am an extremely casual gamer.

Lately I've been paying more attention to Kefari, on Doomhammer.


Not bad for two weeks' work, I think. Especially because I've been actually getting all of my schoolwork done in between screwing around in Azeroth.

More or less that's what's been going on right now, I'll post again sometime soon.

My paid game-time ends Feb 16th, so at the very least you'll hear from me then. :-P

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A List of People Who Bug Me (A Lot)

1. Girls with Facial Piercings.
Okay, I guess I can deal with nose studs. Fine. They look better on some girls than others, but whatever. The ones that really bugs me are the ones in the cheeks, or the area above or below the lips. I'm actually a fan eyebrow piercings and suchlike, but anything else is just overdone. You look dumb.

2. Stupid People in Lines at Fast Food Restaurants.
Seriously, guys. If I am the first in line and you are the fourth, do not crowd the counter as if you think your food is going to come out ahead of mine, especially if I am standing back a respectful distance. And if they give everyone a number and they call that number when your order is ready, be paying attention, retard.

3. People Who Spell Words with Numbers
l337 is fine. I am all about l337. The following is a list of "words" and phrases that are unacceptable.

• Are you ready 4 this weekend?
• See you l8r!
• I want 2 eat chocolate.
• sk8r

Seriously. That's just freaking lazy. It's not even cute. Also, it is hard to read.

4. People Who Like Twilight.
I mean, come on guys. Really?

5. People Who TyPe LiKe ThIs.
It makes me want to kill myself, and it makes you look stupid. That's too much work. Like the exact opposite of People Type #4.

6. People Who Choose 'Need' and then Disenchant.
This really only makes sense to people who play WoW. Let's just say I've been cheated out of some good gear and couple of epics because of a complete douchebag who didn't want to drop a couple extra gold for his mats.

7. People Who Think That The Only People Who Like Pink Floyd are Stoners.
Seriously, I love Pink Floyd. Mainly, The Wall. You do not need to be high to appreciate it, either the album or the movie, and I think being high while watching/listening to it just cheapens it. Roger Waters is a musical genius. So STFU.


More to come, I'm sure.