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Chrismahanukwanzadan!

I'm going to try to get my holiday cards out in a timely manner this year. Would you like one? Just leave a comment here with the address to which you'd like it sent. All comments are screened for your privacy and I promise I won't use the information for evil.

Today will go down in history as the best Tuesday in my life. Everything is Dragneto darling and nothing hurts!


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Comment on this post and let me know you want to participate. I will choose six userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

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Everything is Charles and Erik and nothing hurts.

That is all. Thank you and good night.

Pick a character and I will give and explain the top five ideas / concepts / etc. I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

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I wonder what it's like for those normal people who can just watch a show and like it and not be like OH GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST THING SINCE NUTELLA I NEED TO MARATHON IT FOR THREE WEEKS STRAIGHT AND OH LOOK AT THESE PRETTY GRAPHICS AND GIFS AND OH I NEED THE THEME SONG AS MY RINGTONE AND OH IS THERE ANY DECENT FIC? I LOVE EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURTS!

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Chrismahanukwanzadan!

I'm going to try to get my holiday cards out in a timely manner this year. Would you like one? Just C&P this little form into a comment (don't worry, they're screened) and that's that! If you want to send one to me, my contact info can be found here.

<b>NAME:</b> <b>ADDRESS:</b> <b>HOLIDAY OF CHOICE:</b> Christmas, Pancha Ganapati, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, Yule, New Year, Kawanzaa, Ramadan, etc etc. If a generic holiday greeting is fine, just say "Winterval"

In reference to this and this:

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I now return you to your regularly scheduled f-list.

MARIE: I secretly want Jack to show up on Dr Who again
KATIEJACK: lmfao i not so secretly do, too
MARIE: I want to see him with 11. :3
KATIEJACK: Jack would tap dat.
KATIEJACK: .........
MARIE: What wouldn't Jack tap, honestly?
KATIEJACK: /rolls
KATIEJACK: ...a dalek
MARIE: YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
KATIEJACK: ...no
MARIE: Precisely.

Sanctuary live discussion begins now!

Hey everyone! Welcome back to another instalment of Sanctuary Friday discussion. It's still an hour and a half until show time for those of us on EST, but why not get the ball rolling with some theories, ideas on where this season might go, what we'd like to see, and any spoilers we've heard thus far. y/n?

Once 10pm rolls around, this post will be for general first impressions, key-mashing of shock and awe, and general discussion before, during, and after Kali, Pt 3. Spoilers will abound! Watch, chat, and have fun! Even if you miss the episode airing at Eastern Standard Time, feel free to post here as you watch in your own time zone.

Additionally, you can also find my commentary on Plurk, Twitter, and Tumblr.

SHANNON: Your thread with Deadpool is great. <3
MARIE: OMG Pepper's having kittens. Can't you just see them falling out of her skirt with each passing comment?
SHANNON: LOL Really though.
MARIE: srsly
MARIE: "OMG!" /plop! Mew?
MARIE: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" /plop! Mew?
MARIE: "GET OUT OF HERE!" /plop! Mew?
SHANNON: LOL
MARIE: It's kind of an entertaining mental image.
SHANNON: LOL It really is.
MARIE: Every time Pepper's irrationally angry it's all I can think of it: this small pile of kittens accumulating.
SHANNON: Leaving a trail of kittens as she spazzes everywhere~
MARIE: Yep~
MARIE: Tony: Where are all these kittens coming from?
SHANNON: "Are you...? Pepper, are you giving birth to kittens? Go outside and do that. That's so gross."
MARIE: LOL!!

I spent almost four hours waiting in the financial aid office today. Now, usually to pay one's fees at this particular dumpy little community college, one would go to the book store. However, because of my wonky academic / financial aid probation because of my low GPA from like five or six years ago, I'm required to wait until after grades have been posted, go to financial aid so they can verify I met my grade and attendance requirements, then they allot my aid to pay my next terms' fees. Grades were posted yesterday (straight A's for me, baby). So, I went in today and sat there for three and half hours. Not because the computers were down or they were short staffed, simply because (as experience has taught me) the administrative offices of this college are woefully inept.

Yes, that's an annoyance. When I was finally seen a quarter 'til seven, the advisor rushed me through. I asked her what steps I had to take to pay for my courses with my grants. She pushed and few buttons and informed me it was paid. Then she noticed something amiss. One of the elective I'd chosen to round out my schedule to full-time (a condition of receiving my grants) doesn't qualify to be paid for by my grant so it's marked as being 'temporarily' paid. As it turns out, because I was in and out of school and acquired many credits from several places which didn't transfer between one and other, I'm technically also a student who is considered to be at 150% credit. Ergo, because of that, the federal grants I receive can only be used for courses the directly apply to my major. Not my really real major like what I'm going to be studying at university, but rather the remainder of my requirements for my AA-transfer degree.

Okay, sure, not so bad. Here's the problem: I only have eight courses left to take. However, four of them are math courses that I can't together. Two of those are remedial courses I have to take before I can even dream of registering for a college-level math course. So I'm looking at four more terms of school (another year) just to cover those. Now, I have four other courses I need to take. Only those eight courses will be paid for by my grants and only if I'm enrolled full time. The remaining eight courses I need are:

➤ Intro to Public Speaking (GEC communications requirement)
➤ Elementary Algebra (remedial math course #1)
➤ Intermediate Algebra (remedial math course #2)
➤ College Algebra or Math for Liberal Arts Majors I (GEC math requirement)
➤ College Geometry or Math for Liberal Arts Majors II (GEC math requirement)
➤ Intro to Astronomy or Intro to Geology (GEC natural science requirement)
➤ Intro to Theatre (GEC humanities requirement)
➤ Intro to Religion (GEC humanities requirement)

For the Fall term I'm currently scheduled for Elementary Algebra, Intro to Public Speaking, Intro to Theatre, and a foreign language course. I now have to wait until the 10th when fees are due for people to be bumped out of the sciences courses I'm looking at in the right time slot to ensure (a) my grant will pay for the course since I didn't take a loan and (b) I actually am enrolled full-time to receive the grant. This basically means I'm going to have two courses next term for which my grant money will pay. And then only one class for the following two terms. All my glee about getting a lot of grant money is suddenly gone since I'm going to either have to cut to half-time (which would affect my grants) or take out loans again.

Though, with such a large amount of my grant money going unused, I might be able to drop to half time and still get enough to cover my educational expenses. It's far too late for me to be thinking about these things and after the awesomely bad day I had, it's just giving me a headache. /sigh

In an unrelated note: several of my icons aren't displaying properly. That's just peachy LJ. If it's not one simple fucking thing, it's another. DreamWidth is looking more and more appealing as a permanent home for my infrequent complaining about boring shit no-one cares about every day.

Hey f-list, do you mind if I ask you something? I don't expect you to have like THE ANSWER but, I'd just like to have this dialogue with someone.

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Discuss.

Some lovelies consistently make me happy. And this is why: