...I just took a quiz on Facebook to find out whether or not I'm a potato.

I'm not. Thank FSM.

Okay, I've gone back skip=100, and rather than force LJ to let me go earlier I'm just going to declare myself caught up. Go me! (I did notice that at least one other person has already done the 15 book meme, which is why I need to, you know, actually read my flist.)

I think this is adorable (via Ezra Klein):



Almost as adorable as the original Barack/Michelle fist bump.

Making plans for next Tuesday....These will involve going to vote on my way home from work, then spending the rest of the evening flipping between various news channels, refreshing about 15 tabs, and biting my nails.

Still haven't gotten my computer fixed, but I set up a couple podcasts and videos on my work computer to sync with my new birthday iPod. So now I can listen to Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann on my way to and from work! And I found a free program to convert .avi files to .mp4, so I'm putting some MST3K eps on the iPod too. My dad didn't understand the point--won't I be driving? Yeah. I've seen them so many times I really only *need* the audio at this point. My iPod is currently named Rupert. I plan to change its name to Ripper after I get my computer fixed and can actually put cool music on it.

I missed work yesterday because of a really bad migraine. When I got in this morning (after YET ANOTHER traffic jam because PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE), I found a giant printer sitting in my cubicle. It's the one from the classroom, and it's broken, but I don't know what the hell it's doing in MY area. B has a WHOLE ROOM to scatter junk in, after all.

Oh, and "Undead Journal" can bite me.

Layniek4172 has become layniek! It looks so weird! I used a rename token and told it to forward, so everything that says layniek4172 should still end up here.

More people on my friends list are fans of "ticky" than of "box". Interesting.

I spent the morning (in between fixing stupid people's non-problems) finding icons for my new(ish) fandoms and filling all my icon slots. I have ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN ICONS, y'all! *does a happy dance* Of course, I will probably need to delete some once I start watching Angel and need an icon for that. Woe. And, you know, whatever other new fandoms I come across. picara is preparing to push Arrested Development. But right now I am totally caught up yay! *points at shiny new icon of Ten*

This is for the otw_onlinecon, and because I'm a masochist and feel like embarrassing myself.

( my way too detailed and embarrassing fannish history )

I would just like to say that MySpace is kind of annoying. *cuddles Livejournal* I can't figure anything out. Oh for the simplicity of Flexible Squares! Even the several hours it took me to get my banner image to show up were less frustrating than trying to customize MySpace.

Also, if I could figure out how to delete my Xanga, that would be brilliant. *grumbles*

Made by lidi.

Look, it are flowers!

These curtains sure are fun to play with!

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--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

--AZ-01: Rick Renzi

--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

--CA-04: John Doolittle

--CA-11: Richard Pombo

--CA-50: Brian Bilbray

--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

--CO-05: Doug Lamborn

--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell

--CT-04: Christopher Shays

--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

--FL-16: Joe Negron

--FL-22: Clay Shaw

--ID-01: Bill Sali

--IL-06: Peter Roskam

--IL-10: Mark Kirk

--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

--IN-02: Chris Chocola

--IN-08: John Hostettler

--IA-01: Mike Whalen

--KS-02: Jim Ryun

--KY-03: Anne Northup

--KY-04: Geoff Davis

--MD-Sen: Michael Steele

--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht

--MN-06: Michele Bachmann

--MO-Sen: Jim Talent

--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns

--NV-03: Jon Porter

--NH-02: Charlie Bass

--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson

--NM-01: Heather Wilson

--NY-03: Peter King

--NY-20: John Sweeney

--NY-26: Tom Reynolds

--NY-29: Randy Kuhl

--NC-08: Robin Hayes

--NC-11: Charles Taylor

--OH-01: Steve Chabot

--OH-02: Jean Schmidt

--OH-15: Deborah Pryce

--OH-18: Joy Padgett

--PA-04: Melissa Hart

--PA-07: Curt Weldon

--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick

--PA-10: Don Sherwood

--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee

--TN-Sen: Bob Corker

--VA-Sen: George Allen

--VA-10: Frank Wolf

--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick

--WA-08: Dave Reichert

Mother took me to the emergency room last night for the headache I'd had for three days. It had gotten worse and worse through dinner, to the point where I felt nauseated almost always, especially in the car, and lights and sounds really bothered me. I was thinking about how it would just go on, that I didn't have anything to make it stop. So, yeah, emergency room. We didn't have to wait very long, and the doctor gave me a shot and a couple of pills, including Benadryl and something for nausea. The headache went away for the most part. By the time we left, though, I started feeling all panicky and weird. I've never felt like that before. The whole ride home it was almost unbearable. It felt like something was horribly wrong, but I didn't know what. I took a shower and managed to go to sleep eventually, but I never want to feel like that again. It's pretty much better today. I'm still worried that panicky feeling's going to come back, though.

What's up with this "Current Location" thing? Stop it, Livejournal! I'm very uncomfortable with change.

I've just spent the evening filling up about 30 of my icon slots. I have so many PRETTY PRETTY icons and I want to use them ALL AT ONCE.

GIP: This is one of my new X-Files icons. Mulder and Scully go undercover as Rob and Laura Petrie. They pronounce it "petri," like the dish.

I have 100 icon slots now! I'm having so much fun searching for icons, now that I actually have space for all the icons that make me go "ooh, shiny!"

GIP! picara made this one for me, because she rocks.

These are my new journal colors. I haven't decided if I like it this way yet. And I had to fiddle with the template a lot, because it was way too pink before. The fact that I've expended effort on this means that I have to live with it awhile before I decide if I like it. This is logic, of a kind.

Whee! Today is my LJ anniversary! I have been on LJ one whole year. This time last year I was on pins and needles about the election, checking polls and blogs every five seconds. I created a Livejournal mainly for my own benefit, to write about how I felt about the election and what was going on in my life. It's kind of morphed since then, as I was persuaded to give the link to my friends and slowly got comfortable friending people in the due South fandom and in others. Now, of course, I'm relying on LJ for everything, from fandom to political news. If a website doesn't have an RSS feed that I can pull onto my flist then I probably won't visit it. Um. All that to say...LJ is life? I guess?

Still no indictments. Come on, Fitzgerald! We're waiiitttinnng.

I bought books yesterday! Books I probably shouldn't have bought, since they're in hardcover, but I've been waiting for them for ages, so. That's my excuse. I bought Al Franken's new book, The Truth (With Jokes), the new Honor Harrington book, At All Costs, and a paperback called Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer. So, I have way more books than I have time to read. This is news to nobody.

I haven't done any work on Reference, the class I took an incomplete in this summer, since the fall semester started. (We're not telling my mother. I'm "working on it." In a way that looks like not working on it.) Mary Beth has offered to help me finish stuff, so we're supposed to go to the library on Friday to see what I can get done. Maybe we can get it all out of the way. And then I can go back to worrying myself to death over Library Management. Why did I ever think graduate school was a good idea?

(Words in this post the LJ spellchecker doesn't recognize: LJ, blogs, Livejournal, friending, fandom, RSS, flist, waiiitttinnng, Franken's, Bawer, spellchecker.)

Guess what I learned last night? LiveJournal can pull any blog with an RSS feed onto my friends page! This is so freaking cool. I mean, now I don't have to actually surf the Internets at all! It's all (mostly) on my friends page, which is ideal. I have a filter for politics now, which includes AMERICAblog, Talking Points Memo, I Blame the Patriarchy, Pandagon, and a whole slew of others. I also found a feed for Userfriendly, which rocks liek whoa. Unfortunately, Xanga doesn't have RSS feeds, so I can't pull in backwards Xanga-users' blogs. Philistines.

I am even more in love with LiveJournal than before. ♥

I'm a member of an LJ Daily Show community where people discuss the new episodes, appearances by Daily Show guests on other shows, etc. Jon recently bitch-slapped Bernard Goldberg about his book 100 People Who are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37). Goldberg appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show after that, so someone posted about it. And someone replied, using a bright, shiny, flashy icon that says "In Book Six ___________ Dies" [name removed to protect the spoiler-free]. Someone who has never posted on this Daily Show community before. And the thread immediately degenerated into a giant fight about what a jackass this guy is to show up for the sole reason of posting Harry Potter spoilers (and yes, the icon is absolutely true). I have nothing to add, really, except that some people are indeed asshats. I'm so used to the happy, respectful world of LJ. It's really disappointing to see something like this.

If you're interested in checking out the wank, it's here, though obviously you will be spoiled for HBP if you look.

Over Father's Day weekend, Uncle Bob got fired because of stuff he wrote in his blog. And yes, fine, his entries are irreverent and vulgar, etc. And mine usually aren't. But I'm still worried about it, so I've gone back and flocked a few entries. Basically, anything related to work or dissing of specific teachers, because you never know when their opinion of me might become important. So you'll need to be on my friends list and logged in to see some of my entries now. If you're not already on my friends list, just let me know and I will probably add you.

Whoo! I now have a paid account. I have 15 icon spaces! I have a due South mood theme! I'm also debuting my new layout, since I got all excited about LJ last night and set it up instead of doing my Collection Development reading. Or, you know, going to bed on time. I think I'm constitutionally required to put in a ticky box poll at some point, but I'm not in the mood for that now. I'm not at work today, because I wasn't feeling well and ended up waaayy oversleeping. I'm still going to have to go to class tonight, though, so here's hoping I feel better by then. Also, GIP! Check out my new socks icon by natgel! I didn't realize how much I was going to love this icon till I started using it. They're rainbow socks! Yay!

Clearly, something very sad is going on. See, I was reading the Right of Marriage Blog. I read this sentence: "And don't forget that no less than 3 of the committee members were SPONSORS of the same-sex marriage ban last year."

Yeah, it says less than 3. Which I immediately interpreted as a cleverly amusing spelling-out of this: <3. In other words, a heart. That? Is very sad.

In other news, today at the mall I saw a guy whose t-shirt said "Look Polish Everybody." Whoo! Dorky Mystery Science Theater shirts!

I recently purchased Season 9 of MST3K on ebay, and it got here today. I watched most of The Projected Man earlier, during dinner. They're great DVDs, though I'm going to need to buy cases for them at some point. Each episode is on a separate DVD, and they've got chapter divisions and everything. Excellent. The Projected Man has tons of great riffs, and I don't have it on tape so I don't get to see it very often. Like, there's a shot of a cage with a rat in it, so Crow's all, "You know, despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage." Or the one at the morgue where they're looking at some dead robbers that are apparently notorious for having been captured several times. One of the cops looks down at this dead guy in the drawer and is all, "Man, I've seen [Dead Guy] in lots of positions. I never expected to see him like this." So Servo chimes in, "Yeah, we've been through the Kama Sutra together many times." That's, like, one of my favorite riffs EVER.