Update by Vynda, 0006.29
Alrighty, There's no real update to the page other that I'm in North Carolina at the moment being bored out of my mind and slightly sore after falling down some mountain stairs. No real injury other than my dignity, and I should pull myself out of that mess quite quickly. I'll have plenty of updates when I get back, so stay tuned.
Update by Vynda, 0006.13
House of Blues.com hath showered me with gifts for linking them from the main page. Yesterday, I recieved a package in the mail containing two HOB.com bumper stickers, a June calendar of events, and an official HOB pocket protector. I shit you not. It's got a picture of a computer with the outline of someone sitting at it with both hands raised in the bullhorn/devil symbol (i don't know how else to describe it). I think it's hilarious. And today they've given me a Better Than Ezra Audio/Video Interview. So the HOB is definitely on my "cool places that have given me stuff" list that I started yesterday, coincedentally, with...HOB.com. Today I added the local health clinic for forgetting I had one of their pens with a brand of medicine on it as I waited for my immunizations for college (rabies and such). The medicine is called Actos and I have no idea what it does, so I'm opening up a new window right now to find out. Actos...Actos...it certainly *sounds* like an exciting drug. I found it! It treats type 2 diabetes. Hmm...good to know...
Update by Vynda, 0006.11
Added "Prophecy" by Remy Zero to the Lyrics page.
Update by Vynda, 0006.09
Happy Graduation to Rey, Rain, and Kaos!!
Update by Vynda, 0006.05
Added 1229 Sheffield by the Verve Pipe to the lyrics section.
Update by Vynda, 0006.04
Here I go, breaking my no caps rule...
update by vynda, 0005.30
four days until graduation.
Update by Vynda, 0005.25
One week till gradution, one day till my last day of high school.
Update by Vynda, 0005.whenever
One week and three days until graduation.
Update by Vynda, 0005.20
One week and six days until graduation.
Update by Vynda, 0005.18
"The time has come," Govynda said,
Update by Vynda, 0005.12
Happy Birthday to me! WOOHOO! 18! ALright, the question evryone's been asking, "do you feel any different?" the answer is yes. I feel better than yesterday, mainly because I'm recovering from a bas sinus infection. Other than that, I'm my old self. Put down that birthday cake. Wait...those aren't candles...
Update by Vynda, 0005.10
Two more days till my birthday.
Update by Vynda, 0005.09
3 days left and counting till my birthday.
Update by Vynda, 0005.03
Woohoo! My birthmonth is here! This month is gonna be surreal. Let's see, who shares my birthmonth with me? Salvador Dali, Michael Palin, Katherine Hepburn, Joanna Lumley, Bing Crosby, Christine Baranski, James Brown, Audrey Hepburn, Pia Zadora (hey, who knew?), Annette Bening, Orson Welles, George Clooney, Fred Astaire, James L. Brooks, Bono, Irving Berlin, Harvey Keitel, Dennis Rodman, Bobby Darin, George Lucas, Pierce Brosnan, Lenny Kravitz, Enya, Trent Reznor, Dennis Hopper, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Stweart, Rosemary Clooney, Drew Carey, Noel Gallagher, Bob Dylan, Frank Oz, L. Frank Baum, Mike Myers, Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Price, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hope, Rupert Everett, Mel Blanc, Lea Thompson, Katherine Hepburn (my birthday), George Carlin (my birthday), Burt Bacharach (my birthday), Florence Nightingale (my birthday), and Emilio Estevez (EMELIOOOOOOO! my birthday).
Update by Vynda, 0004.29
Updated the links page, yawned, and went back to the couch.
Update by Vynda, 0004.27
Added the Support Our Specs Ribbon to the main page, and added the Opus graphic to the top of this page (which you should be able to see unless you're blind. If you are blind, let me apologize for that gross attempt at a wiseass remark. I'm sure I can find a copy of the jpeg in braille somewhere).
Update by Vynda, 0004.26
16 more days till I'm 18. Cringe, damn you, cringe!
Update by Vynda, 0004.25
Added the Running with Scissors Poll, with the intention of updating it weekly.
Addendum by Vynda, 0004.22
Here's Flux's Take on the FBLA Conference, and we're fighting over whether Nuri's name ends in an 'i' or 'y'. So, if you're out there, Piano Man, tell one of us!
Update by Vynda, 0004.22
We now return you to our abnormally schedualed programming.
Rah and I took Balthasarr out to lunch and a movie yesterday for his birthday. We ended up eating at Miya Sushi and seeing High Fidelity. Lunch was pretty good. No, I didn't have sushi. I do not eat fish under normal circumstances, why would I eat it raw? Anyways, I had some excellet chicken teriyaki and we got a chance to try out my new digital camera (an excellent grad present from my rents and sibs). High Fidelity was pretty good. Balth enjoyed it, which was all that mattered. And now I'm stuck at home again! *scream, bitch, whine*
Updated the Quotebook.
Last Friday was graduation for us (me, Vyxxie, and Flux). So Rey and Rain came down (their's is next Friday), and we kidnapped Balth and went to IHOP after commencement (bouncy seats!). Saturday, me, Balth, and Flux went to Andy's family's condo on the beach and spent the day and night there. We went cosmic bowling and then to WalMart to pick up so glowsticks (about midnight) where we played capture the flag till we got bored and went back to the condo. We played around on the beach till about 3 a.m., then Balth, Flux, and I slept on the balcony (note: while this may initially seem like a good idea, it tends to begin to suck about sunrise...).
So I get home and it turns out Mr. Annoying finally pushed G over the edge. You remember me saying that he'll pull this shit where he brings up like 20 tags and does this "i don't want this, no, wait, i do, no, wait i don't.."? This time he had one too many customers backed up in line and a late charge he was trying (as usual) to weasel out of. G told him he needed to please hurry up and he informed her that it's her job to get movies and put them back if he doesn't want them and that he didn't care how many people were in line behind him. So G told him that he had five minutes to get the hell out of the store. Well, Mr. Annoying went home and had the police called on G and tried to file a harrassment charge against her (yeah, whatever). The cops got statements from everyone who was in there and my mother has informed him that if he sets foot in the store again that she will have a trespass warrant put on him. All I can say is I will be all too happy to back G up on this one. Yeah, she shouldn't have told him to get the hell out, but there's a breaking point, y'know? I'd've done the same damn thing.
And I have updates for you too! Added a page dedicated to some of the highlights from the old HellForge IRC chatroom. We're planning a reunion tomorrow, so in addition to the older transcripts I post there will be new ones (hopefully). Okay, so I have update for you, same thing.
had weird feeling to ascend from rose period into blue period and abolish all further capital letters (unless they're abbreviations or acronyms). i think it looks pretty groovy. i haven't finished re-coding everything yet. that'll prolly be this week's project since i don't have school (just two, three-hour days of graduation practice, which is learning to sit down in synchronicity with the other students). things happened at work this week, and dad made it into the quotebook, but i haven't updated that far into my synapses, so you'll have to live in suspense till my depressive creative urge breaks into a maniacal creative urge.
Added A Cloak of Elvenkind and Vampires of New York by Marcy Playground, father lucifer, horses, and carnival by Tori Amos, Round Here by Counting Crows, Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina, and Destination Ursa Major by Superdrag to the lyrics page.
Added the lyrics to the entire album"Pink Moon" by Nick Drake and the song "Crucify" by Tori Amos.
Reorganized the lyrics page.
*sigh* Every time I go to work my faith in humanity gets diminished another point as I struggle to forget that these morons are the same people that drive behind me in traffic, prepare my food at restaurants, and "teach" me at school. So tonight Mr. Annoying (the guy who always comes in and bothers me about my mom. I think I've mentioned him a few times) pays a visit. I am on the phone with another customer arranging movie reservations, and he is pointing at the late charge list on the counter and saying in the loudest voice possible, "HOW MUCH DO I OWE?!?" So i tell him, one moment, and finish the conversation with the person on the phone. I grab the account from the file and tells him the total is $6 plus tax (one day late on 2 $2.50 movies and one $1 movie). He then proceeds to argue with me that I've added that up wrong because one of the movies was only $1. No shit, buddy, I *can* read. So I tell him, "yes sir, one of the movies is $1, but two of them are $2.50. $2.50 times two is $5, plus $1 is $6. The charge is $6 plus tax." He still doesn't get it. So I bring over the huge-ass adding calculator and add it up for him, then I let him add it up himself, then I let my co-worker add it up for him again and tell him as he was told in the beginning that it's $6. So then he wants to know if he can pay half and let us rent to him now and he'll pay the rest later. Last time I checked, the word, "simpleton" was not printed on my forehead. I tell him I can't do that, but it seems as though he believes I didn't understand him so he repeats his request loudly and slowly. This pisses me off. People do that to foreigners a lot because they seem to think that loud English is the same as any other language. What makes it worse is that I am NOT foreign, I do NOT have an accent, and even if I DID have an accent, it'd be of British origin anyways, so what good did it do for this guy to yell at me like I spoke a different language. Oh WAIT! I keep forgetting that I'm a teenager. We're fucking stupid, you know? So after about a half hour of trying to prove that public education isn't always a total failure, he pays the late charge and rents more movies. Yeah, and I've got $50 saying those will be late too. Oh, but that isn't all that happened. We don't use a computer for our records. Everything is handwritten, including the reciepts. So this woman runs in the store, lays a bag full of movies on the counter, and proveeds to run out. I yell after her, "Ma'am! What's the last name on the account!" Her reply? "It's in the bag!" (the reciept was still in the bag w/the account name on it) and ran out the door. At this point, I turned to the lady waiting at the counter and told her, "unless her last name is more than four syllables or contains no vowels, I will call that house every five minutes until we close and hang up." She laughed, and the account name was two syllables. Way to waste oxygen, Bag Woman.
Oh yeah, and I got a 98 on my senior thesis. Yay!
To update other things!
Like Quotebooks, and Banners, and Mina's Page,
Like..."
Like, I need to put down 'Alice in Wonderland'...
Added "Laid" by James, "Three Marlenas" by the Wallflowers, "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake, and "Inertia Creeps" by Massive Attack to the page.
Added "Mary Mary" by Chumbawumba, "Gramarye" by Remy Zero, and "Waiting for the Miracle" by Leonard Cohen to the lyrics page.
Other than that I've been sick because I've overworked myself with these thesis/economics/sociology papers that are all due within days of each other. The nearest one is sociology, which is tomorrow. Luckily, it's also the shortest. I'm doing an oral report on the slums of Victorian London and how Jack the Ripper could have been prevented. Next is my composiiton thesis paper on Friday. I'm almost done (just need a conclusion), and it promises to be 12 to 13 pages long. Last is my economics simulation "where will you be in 10 years?", which I have to find a job, salary, housing, automobile, etc. and make a budget along with dealing with simulations (i.e. car breaks down, roof leaks, etc.). That should be relatively easy, once I get everything out of the way. I'm glad there's only 2 more weeks till I graduate. I'm looking forward to a nice, long summer break.
That was fun, wasn't it, kids?
8:05 in the morning and I'm giggling like mad. I really have no reason to (*cough*lackofsleep*cough*). Well, sticking the "Evil Homer" wav on loop might have something to do with it. Can't you tell I'm bored? Flux is in New Orleans this week on vacation (like she needs one more than the rest of us). Wish I was in New Orleans. Okay, wait, lemme turn off the "Evil Homer" wav. It's driving me mad. Okay, it's off. Alright, so I will look at Rue Royal Balconies, St. Louis Cemetary No. 1, Louis Prima's grave @ Metarie Cemetary, and pretty much every cemetary they have. Stupid Fluxxie. *I* should be in New Orleans! Who wants to hijack a plane?
I sit corrected. The SHAWT is no longer extinct, just a bit endangered, and the actual word being mispelled in the "last" SHAWT is 'nun', not 'none' as I'd originally percieved. I kinda feel like a heel, though. I mean, I love the SHAWT (mostly b/c Bill's a wonderful writer), but now I feel like we've put him into this situation where us readers are beating a drum and forcing him to row. I dunno. Maybe it's just because I feel a little burned out on my thesis lately so I know what it's like to feel like you're writing and accomplishing nothing. In fact, that's how I feel right now. I'm just gonna stop and tell you all about the FBLA convention I just get back from.
I'm going to give it to everyone straight up: be VERY afraid of your Future Business Leaders of America. We're a very motley crew. Needless to say, I had very little fun (with the obvious exception of meeting Nuri and Bob). We stayed @ the Peabody in Orlando (yeah, and I did get pix of the ducks). Flux, Jeda, and I were forced to share a room with this girl we hated, Steph and Nikki had to share their room with two girls from another school they hated, and everyone but the two nin-IHS girls ended up sharing one room - and fighting like mad. So how do we shake up the monotony? Flux, Jeda, Steph, and I convince the girl from my room that we're high on "blue sparkly pills" (they were really M&Ms. Insert wacky laughter and, "those incorrigible little dickens" here). So apparently she believed us even though we told her it was just candy, and called her mom to come get her early. So this whole thing completely explodes on us. We told our advisor, who told us that this girl's mother wants a conference about our behavior concerning her daughter. OUR behavior? OUR BEHAVIOR?! Oh don't even get me started on this girl's behavior. She's like that chick from American Pie who won't shut up about band camp! Seriously! She thinks she's the coolest person in the world and everyone in the whole group, nay, the whole FLOOR couldn't stand her. She refused to get dressed in the bathroom, instead she'd just strip in the middle of the room, especially when we had guests over. She wouldn't shut up while we were trying to sleep either. And our chapter was holding a contest to see how many shirts we could get from the other chapters, so we were on the phone offering pizza to this one group of guys (who turned out to be 14 and 15 year-olds) down the hall from us, and she refuses to leave us alone and starts propositioning them on the phone! I just cannot WAIT for her mommy to bitch our advisor for this one! I'll be their backing Ms. W up! Okay, so you can see how frustrating that was, so let me tell you about the good things that happened. Well, we met these two really cool guys named Nuri and Bob who stayed down the hall from us. We hung out Friday night on a couch and talked, so that was cool. And Nuri played the piano for us. Talented, that boy is. Too bad the tips totalled six cents and two matchbooks. What else was good that happened....oh yeah! Jeda got 4th place in Business Proceedures out of the whole state! So she's elated. Hmm...what else...I managed to finish "A Clockwork Orange" on the way back, so I should be ready for any essay test Sheffie throws at me. And that's pretty much it.
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