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[Sun Nov 20th, 2005 12:47pm ] |
Longish entry after a longish time of none...
Sean and I went and saw HARRY POTTAH on opening day, and I loved it. It was, of course, disappointing in some aspects, as all book-based movies tend to be, but I think they did a pretty decent job with what they had. Apparently some Potterfans are really up in arms about how much it differed from the book, but I think they should just chill. If you're going in expecting a movie to reflect a book in anything but the barest sense, you're going to be disappointed. Movies are made to make money, especially this series. You think the LOTR fans were completely pleased with that trilogy? Psh. Nonetheless, I still thought it was very cute.
Except for all the sexual innuendos surrounding the kids that made me feel like a pedophile for even watching certain scenes, lol.
I noticed something the other night that I've noticed many times before and just never said anything about... why do people have to be so disgusting when it comes to public restrooms? WHY? There's a reason public restrooms are so nasty... nasty or careless people use them. Here are some rules I think everyone should keep in mind for public restroom use (mainly directed toward women)....
( bathroom ruuuules....Collapse )
Work is going pretty well. My tutor job, anyway. My computer job has gone from giving me 10-15 hours of work a week to giving me about 5 or 6, which has greatly reduced my paycheck for that job, which sucks. I'm letting it be for now because school is very hectic, but I hope they start giving me more hours again once I'm out. Especially since once I graduate in a month and a half, the computer job will be the only one I have because I can't be a tutor at my college unless I'm also a student.
I finally got my GE replacement form accepted for English 101, which means I should be in the clear to graduate. EXCITING. Of course, I'm still a little nervous, because my school is kind of noitourious for springing things on graduates-to-be at the last minute. English 101 was supposedly the only requirement I hadn't fulfilled, but I'm just terrified that after registration has passed they're going to spring on me that there was actually some other class I had to take. It would be like my school to do that. *Knocks on wood*.
I've been getting A minuses on all of my essays lately, which is super exciting. I feel all uber-intelligent. To specify: I USUALLY get A's or high B's on my essays, but the two theory and literature classes I'm taking right now are both taught by professors who are quite possibly the hardest graders with the highest expectations in the department. If I get an A from them, I feel like I REALLY earned it. In my class of pain on Monday, I had to get in front of class to discuss a critique I wrote, and my mean teacher was grilling me. However, I stood my own and managed to get him to say, "wow, you shut me up." It was AWESOME.
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[Sat Nov 5th, 2005 5:24pm ] |
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| Your Birthdate: September 7 | 
You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy.
And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you.
Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights.
You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice!
Your strength: Your self sufficiency
Your weakness: You despise authority
Your power color: Maroon
Your power symbol: Hammer
Your power month: July |
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[Mon Oct 10th, 2005 11:57pm ] |
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tell me your name
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
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[Thu Oct 6th, 2005 8:18pm ] |
I was talking online to Kandice earlier, and I realized that, for some odd reason, I always seem to be singled out and hit on/chatted up by really right-wing, conservative guys. Well, not so much conservative and right-wing as men who happen to be conservative, but are also outwardly sexist; the type that view women as objects, which is obvious in the way they treat/talk to me and other women. I would think that my pink hair and demeanor, in addition to my outspoken liberalism, would send the message that I'm not the type of girl that will allow herself to be objectified and treated as a lesser, but who knows. The other day in class, a guy I know for a fact (because he's constantly spouting his opinion in class) is sexist, although he would never say so, sat next to me and was chatting me up. I was polite, because that's how I am, but at the same time I was thinking, "I hope he doesn't start openly flirting, because I will probably not know what to do besides stare at him blankly and ask him if he's serious."
I always seem to be seated next to that type of guy on airplanes when I'm traveling alone. There was one guy, easily in his 40's, who sat next to me and proceeded to talk about what an incredibly Christian lifestyle he led. Then he talked about how he had never married. Then he asked me if I was married. It was creeptown.
I don't mind conservatives, but I do mind men who view me as nothing more than a possible doting wife and baby-factory. Makes me glad that I can truthfully say, "Sorry, seriously dating a raging liberal" to throw them off my scent.
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[Sat Oct 1st, 2005 2:43pm ] |
I've been avoiding making my journal look really, really nice, because LJ overrides scare me and I didn't want to sit down and figure them out. But I did, and I am much pleased with the result. View my journal and see for yourself ;)
Maybe spending more time on beautifying it will inspire me to actually update semi-frequently.
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[Sat Sep 24th, 2005 11:10am ] |
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I just had a really bizarro dream.
I and six of my classmates had won this drawing for some random contest, and we all got to spend a day doing... things. I dunno. We got to go places for free. Haha. It was weird... it was mixed classmates from college AND high school... some people I haven't seen in about five-six years. RANDOM people, too... people I wasn't really close friends with. Odd.
All of a sudden, we were a baseball team, and we were going to visit a major league stadium. The major league players picked three people to come up to bat and be pitched to, and I was the only girl they picked. They kept laughing at me and switching my bat for a really heavy one and throwing me crappy pitches, and I just laughed and played along. And then they threw a pitch that I could actually hit, and I smashed it into the outfield and got a double. LOL.
Rad. So yeah. I thought that was a pretty freaking random dream, but I was amused. Don't know what it means. Maybe that I'm stronger than people think I am? I dunno. It was sweet, though ;)
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