The Final Countdown

Wracked with indecision about what significant issue write about, Quail has been quite remiss in posting and has since decided that inane posts are possibly better than no posts at all.

But of course, significant posts on a regular basis are even better. 

As of right now, there are 3 hours and 19 minutes until winter break starts. Quail and Hawk are both finished with the finals they have to finish (and are not worrying about the ones that are yet to come (I know Hawk is, but she shouldn't be.)). At any rate, the time until break ends feels asymptotic. Like a logarithmic function, as x (time) increases, f'(x) (perception) gets smaller and smaller, and f(x) increases achingly slowly. 

Lolling around

Not to be mistaken with LOL-ing around.



Sleep.



I craves it. Quail has gotten 12 hours of sleep in 3 days. Not enough, says she. AN OWL I AM NOT.

Fanfiction is the bane of my existence. I love it, I hate it, love to hate it, hate to love it.

But I can't stop reading. I suppose there's something wrong when I get most of my emotional fulfillment from reading other peoples' writings about other peoples' fictional characters. Maybe I'm just an escapist. Whatever the reason, it's still ridiculously fun in a guilty way.


Paycheck = happy!

Stalling

^ It's the cool thing to do.

I......nevermind.

I....was going to post something here.


I really was



But then I didn't. Do you wonder what I was going to post about?


Well, I wonder about it too.


I really don't know what I was going to say here. How frightening.

No no no no no.

It's Q-pon, not COO-pon.


A) We aren't pigeons.

B) Coopon reminds me of Grey poupon mustard. I loathe mustard. Qpons are good things. Mustard is not. Therefore I refuse to call it a coopon.

End of story.

I do, however, admit that segue is pronounced "Segway" and not "se-gew" as I previously had thought. In my defense, I don't remember hearing it pronounced before.

Artsy crafty

I guess what they say about stress killing creativity is true.

Now that it's summer, I've been doodling all the time (....errrsometimesatworktoo) and now I really want to get out there and just make things.

I've also expanded my music collection by almost 2G, though I feel like I'm getting more mainstream.
Oh well, as long as it's good music that I can sing to, I don't mind. As Weezer says, "everyone likes to dance to a happy song, with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along".

Favorite song of the bunch? Definitely 'On the Radio' by Regina Spektor. It and 'Pork and Beans' are probably my feel-good songs of the year.

So my parents are getting on my case about deciding what I want to do about the rest of my life, which I'm kind of grateful for because otherwise I'd put off thinking about it....

Speaking of which, I'll post some useful links for stuff, since I've started using del.icio.us to find those lifehack lists of ways to be productive, etc., etc. as well as useful tools to shorten time doing useless things. I also try to restrict my compulsive internet and checking habits. We'll see how long that lasts.
Anyway:
Joe's Goals: This is a good site to keep track of your habits; assign positive scores to good ones, negative scores to bad ones, and check off which ones you do every day. You can chart your progress to see if your score gets better. The first step is to track your habits!

del.icio.us: Saves a bunch of time looking for sites that you found a long time ago. As long as you get in the habit of compulsive bookmarking, it's pretty useful. The most I've gotten out of it, however, has been seeing what other people use to increase efficiency. Take a look at the most popular lifehack bookmarks out there

Pandora: Free streaming music! What more could you ask for? The best part is that you choose songs you like, create stations, and Pandora will fill the list with things that are similar to the song or artist you chose. Great way to expand your music repetoire. Downside is that you can't pick the songs in the list (well, you can skip them), so if you want to hear a particular song, this isn't really useful. It's like customizable radio without the annoying announcers or ads.
On a side note, you can use Pandora.fm to track your listening habits. It's like Last.fm, but for Pandora. Pretty nice.

Craftzine and Instructables: These are great DIY sites that have instructions on how to make a whole crapload of your own stuff, from tshirts to Ironman masks. I personally cannot wait to spruce up my wardrobe full of black t-shirts

Meetingstarter/GracefulTools: This is actually kind of a plug for my brother's startup. It's a useful tool for planning meetings, appointments, and events, you just have to get everyone to join in. it is quite helpful, especially if people start getting used to using it.
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In other news, I'm going through another emo-style phase. I've picked up 2 skinny ties (checkered and polka-dotted). I might get a collar. Made some armwarmers out of some old striped stockings. Oh no, what am I turning into?

The worst part is that there's no one to slap me if I try to buy anything else.....

I may branch out and design some more Quail and Hawk t-shirts that'll be quite designy, hopefully. We'll see what my schedule looks like after this weekend.

Since I'm rambling anyway, I might as well ramble on a bit more.
I had some strange dreams this week, but they were strange because they were distressingly mundane. It was just flashes of completely normal things, like changing my laptop battery or taking stuff out of my backpack. I think they managed to combine into this dream about going on a quest to save the world, but somehow the dream largely focused on me packing for the journy in a completely ordinary way. I guess life is like that. You get stuck on the little things and somehow lose sight of the epic quest. Or something like that.

More randomness: Since I haven't been able to get regular exercise because of work, I've been playing Stepmania a lot, to the point where now my calves hurt like my gastrocnemius muscles have been replaced by small cacti.

Mmmm, what else?
Oh, I'm getting a library card today, finally. I lost mine in Freshman year and I never bothered to replace them.....

I slept funny last night and now have a painful crick in my neck

Hey Hawky-dear, I hope you're having fun in the lab analyzing your (possibly non-existent) results! Come home soon so we can shanghai you into going to Ikea.

Nothing of note

Just like the title says. More notworkingness because I don't have a clue about what I'm doing, as well as too much stuff to be done.


My parents like to freak out.

I need to practice bassoon.



Hawwwwwk, I haven't heard from you in a long time D:


My dad likes making papaya smoothies with carrot. It's.......not very good.

Updates and conposts

Oh dear, it's been far too long since my last post. Seriously.

So, some updates on life
Post APs was actually busier than Pre APs, but with stuff that I actually enjoy doing :D
I think I spent more time hanging out out of the house in that week than I have in the past few months.
Pool parties and movie hopping and ADVENTURES oh my!

I cleaned my room and the garage!
(but now my room is horribly messy again....)

Oh, and I decided to cosplay with a friend on a whim for FANIMECON 2008. Fun times

So we cosplayed Simon (post and pre timeskip) from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
That involved
getting a sewing machine
buying fabric
making clothes
attention span
etc.

Twas very fun. I actually made something! Filled with jank and randomness. Held together by duct tape and questionable stitching.
Amazingly enough, both were wearable and held up through the con (though my jacket was starting to tear in a few places) It was quite the portable sauna, though. Silly unbreathable pleather/sofa stuff.

Anyway, I don't know what I've turned into. Really; cosplaying. At an anime convention. My brother professed disbelief and a desire not to be related to me. Ah well, may as well enjoy myself before my vacationing logical side shows up.
But my brother likes cereal shaped like bunnies, so I don't know what he's talking about.

Con picture of a bunch of TTGL cosplayers, both the cosplays I made included:

Photo courtesy of twfeline on Flickr

And now since it's late and I'm tired and the screen is swimming interestingly, I suppose I shall retire to bed now.

PS. There was a group of evangelical christians protesting and preaching outside the con with a huge sign that said "TURN TO JESUS OR BURN IN HELL". Then Jesus showed up.

(photo courtesy of eschatologist)

They managed to garner quite a crowd of rowdy types, which ended up getting rick-rolled
Here's a video of it (Don't worry, you guys can turn the sound down, since it's hard to hear the rickrolling anyway):
Jesus is never gonna give you up

Lightforce!

Video game music from the 80s is way too much fun to rock out to.


Rob Hubbard is my new music idol.

A montage of wonderous words!

After the last two monster posts, I felt like putting a shorter post up here to make it more balanced.

Oh man, I had forgotten how good being sore feels. On one hand it means that I'm really out of shape, but on the other, "pain is the feeling of weakness leaving the body".

This post shall be delightfully inane, and delightfully inane it will remain.

The cheese flakes fall with an erratic regularity, controlled only by the machines of fate and the mouse of time. Tis a pity that the benzene ring of Earth is so imperfect as to be fish.


See? Perfectly inane.