September 5th, 2009
August 30th, 2009
Welcome to Casa Roleplay a Meebo chat room made specifically for those of us who looooove to role-play (or RP for short).
August 1st, 2009
Some time ago, Mom, my little sister and me were at Uno's and somehow we got into a discussion on chatrooms and Mom kept insisting that they were dangerous - which they can be if you're an idiot and you are actually crazy enough to try and MEET a person you meet in chat! - and that they just all around bad. I don't know why, x number of months later this is bothering me, but it is. Firstly, she's never been in a chatroom in her life, secondly as long as you're careful about your private info and somehow get "hooked" into deciding to meet a person you met in chat in real life, what's the harm? Chat is fun, you have a chance of meeting people who have the same interests as you but may not live in the same locale as yourself, you can RP with people or just talk. Excluding the people who don't use decent grammar and the pervs who ask if any "hot girls/hot guys" wanna cam with them, chat is awesome. But anyway, Mom more or less insisted that I shouldn't go on chat anymore - not that that will ever happen of course, I love chat WAAAAAY to much for that to ever occur, but it's still annoying. I love my mom but sometimes like all moms I suppose they can get on your nerves especially if they themselves haven't taken taken a personal crash course in the internet subculture. Beyond concerns of safety (and especially if their kis are of legal age) they've got no room to speak on the matter.
Now on to a more recent (as of today) topic: Costumes. We were on our way to the Water Mine water park and we drove past some sort of Asian festival and Mom said something like "look at those people in Holloween costumes", never mind that it's not Holloween and it was more the way she said it, disdain like they shouldn't be wearing costumes if they damn well want to! - whether there is or isn't an even that warrants it taking place or not.
Costumes should NOT be made of cheap-ass fabrics and treated like, "oh, I'll just wear this pretty but oh so abnormal/weird outfit for an event and forget about it afterwords". Costumes should be treated like works of art not just worn to "fit in" with a particular event or only on Halloween. And sadly, that's how a lot of them are made, from cheap fabrics which don't hold up and then they go and overcharge for the outfit on top of it!
All I can say is, I cannot WAIT for Suzy to finish my Lanfear costume - made from QUALITY fabric, sewn with an expert hand and designed by myself. My point being except for Con-goers, myself and poeple like Suzy - who is most awesome - the general populace treat costumes as a joke and don't give them the serious respect the concept deserves.
irritatedJune 2nd, 2009
Life is just awesome! Here's why:
a) My birthday is on SUNDAY!!!! 06.07!!!!
I'm going to Giant to get myself a huge sheet cake with vanilla cake/lard icing.
b) My comp is FIXED!!!!!
Lately, my comp has been being corrupted and it got to the point where you couldn't run Windows normally without it freezing and being useless. So I ran this other mode - similar to Safe Mode but which would allow me to use ZoomText - and found the comp's official user's manual and discovered that I had to hold down the zero key before I booted up the computer in order to bring up the Restore to Factory Settings Using the Recovery Partition screen would come up and allow me to wipe my hard drive and start over with my comp as if I just got it out of its box for the first time - at least for the software... *does a dance*
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I've GOT my comp back!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2009
Grr...I hate it when it's cloudy outside and is going to BE cloudy for almost ALL of next week! I want my sunshine. Though, I DO have my haligin [sp] light which, kinda is like a little sun.
On another note, my choir concert is on Sunday at 4 PM. Not only are we going to be singing the material from our last concert but some new stuff as well. Oh, and we must NOT forget "Калинка" with Яраслав singing the solo! But be that as it may, my poor feet are going to be in AGONY from having to stand for 2 hours or so. *dies*
Oh, and Suzy has gotten the first part of my Lanfear costume done - and it looks AWESOME already! She'll need to add the wrap-around off-the-shoulder collar and sleeves and the Belles (as we call the extra fabric decoration which is similar to the skirt of Disney's Belle's golden dress). And on top of that, I've got to hunt for crescent moon and star beads/pendant things for her to sew onto the dress.
I believe that will do for now.
March 6th, 2009
It feels like summer outside - I even went to the park earlier, all good. I think I should compose a power-metal ballad personifying winter and summer as great nations who are at war. :)
On another note iTunes is allowing me to convert files to mp3 format so I can buy CDs from the iTunes store now. I uploaded my new Sirenia CD to my SkyDrive on my Windows Live Space feel free to download it as a .zip file too! And I don't have to worry about the CDs and jewel cases taking up so much damn space.
February 28th, 2009
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Ugh, I was half-asleep and having a nightmare about being chased by something I can't remember - and during this event Breanna's phone's going off, playing this catchy ringtone so now my brain's gone and associated the ringtone as the anthem of the scary thing that was chasing me in my dream. *sob*
I could turn off her phone so it won't ring anymore but Mom might get mad so I'm sitting here with the comp and playing my music with my headphones so that if it rings again I won't hear it.
On another note, I almost done with <i>Extras</i> by Scott Westerfeld the 4th book in his Uglies series concerning out word 300 years in the future or so. And the 4th book is set in Japan so there's some serious language jokes flying around in my head whenever Tally is referred to by her "friend suffix" of "wa".....*falls over laughing" I doubt that Westerfeld knew that "wa" is the subject marker in a Japanese sentence. The other thing I wanna know is <i>where</i> the first 3 books took place, California? There's a city called Diego (like San Diego) so...? At least in book 4 it's blatantly obvious where the setting is.
Ugh, I was half-asleep and having a nightmare about being chased by something I can't remember - and during this event Breanna's phone's going off, playing this catchy ringtone so now my brain's gone and associated the ringtone as the anthem of the scary thing that was chasing me in my dream. *sob*
I could turn off her phone so it won't ring anymore but Mom might get mad so I'm sitting here with the comp and playing my music with my headphones so that if it rings again I won't hear it.
On another note, I almost done with <i>Extras</i> by Scott Westerfeld the 4th book in his Uglies series concerning out word 300 years in the future or so. And the 4th book is set in Japan so there's some serious language jokes flying around in my head whenever Tally is referred to by her "friend suffix" of "wa".....*falls over laughing" I doubt that Westerfeld knew that "wa" is the subject marker in a Japanese sentence. The other thing I wanna know is <i>where</i> the first 3 books took place, California? There's a city called Diego (like San Diego) so...? At least in book 4 it's blatantly obvious where the setting is.
scaredFebruary 14th, 2009
It's Valentines Day once again and this year, I actually have someone I like, well have liked for a long time. And it doesn't help that everyone else who wants some one has someone to spend Valentines Day with. This is so unfair! Mom's got Dennis, Micki's got Jerrit, and Liz is getting married. I don't have anyone - and the person I want is in "unavailable" right now. And he was available for awhile I just didn't have the guts to tell him how I felt! *cries bitterly*
On a happier note, I composed the ending to my "Ballada á Lanfear' song which would be really kick-ass with a choir. I think I might try to ask my friend from Voice/Choir class, Alex, if she'd help me wit hthe vocals since she's a soprano. I also got the 3rd Twilight book which I'm speeding through and enjoying immensely.
NOT. FAIR.January 29th, 2009
I was on Meebo chatting with sdoust and he told me about this website that lets you convert YouTube videos to mp3s. It doesn't even take that long either, I now have Lords of the Rhymes and that Ayumi Hamasaki song I like converted already! I'm just listening through this Smile.dki song to make sure it's alright - of course the converter can only convert the audio quality of the video so...but it's still better than sitting with Audacity hoping my comp won't skip and then Audacity records that. Plus when I'm doing that I can't do anything else. So this website is great!
And even better the site will be perfect for our Queen of Ð because she can't record with Audacity. Now she can have all her Okean Elzy songs. *dances around with glee*
January 26th, 2009
I'm so happy!!!!!! I got the RSS feed to work for my
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I'm so <i>happy!!!!!!</i> I got the RSS feed to work for my <a href="http://nulinya.spaces.live.com>Windows Live Space</a> to work. Now my journal entries' titles will show up on my Space!
On another note I made my own <a href="http://chat.aim.com/chats/games/fantasy-genre-chat">AIM chat room</a>, it's called "Fantasy-Genre Chat". So far I've had two people enter it.
On yet another note, I finished <i>Twilight</i>. As it turns out I wouldn't say it's the <i>greatest</i> thing I've ever read nor would I say it's the most awful either. It's somewhere in the middle but of course cdan't hold a candle to the <i>Vampire Chronicles</i>. I do like Carlistle and Alice a great deal and hopefully there will be more Ancient Ones (really old-ass vampires XD) who will appear later on...
I'm so <i>happy!!!!!!</i> I got the RSS feed to work for my <a href="http://nulinya.spaces.live.com>Windows Live Space</a> to work. Now my journal entries' titles will show up on my Space!
On another note I made my own <a href="http://chat.aim.com/chats/games/fantasy-genre-chat">AIM chat room</a>, it's called "Fantasy-Genre Chat". So far I've had two people enter it.
On yet another note, I finished <i>Twilight</i>. As it turns out I wouldn't say it's the <i>greatest</i> thing I've ever read nor would I say it's the most awful either. It's somewhere in the middle but of course cdan't hold a candle to the <i>Vampire Chronicles</i>. I do like Carlistle and Alice a great deal and hopefully there will be more Ancient Ones (really old-ass vampires XD) who will appear later on...
January 6th, 2009
As usual, Non-American locales tend to create better products and Bratz dolls are no exception. I was looking at a master Bratz character list on Wikipedia and they've got dolls from this Haute Couture en Coulisse Canadian line. The two that appeal to me most are Marielle and Etienne. But I can't find them on Amazon OR eBay! I found some pics of them on google but little else. Pale-skin plus black/blonde/strawberry blonde/red/auburn hair plus light-colored eyes equals my kind of doll in appearance. And the dark lipstick wouldn't help either. :)
You have no idea how hard it is to find black-haired pale-skinned dolls.
December 27th, 2008
I've just looked at my grades. I've got an A in Voice, a C in Creative Writing and - an F in Music Theory. The Japanese grade hasn't been put in yet but I'm sure it's going to be a damn F also. I should have withdrawn from the courses so the grades wouldn't be put in. I was thinking I'd at least get a C in Music Theory though. I really tried in there. I went ahead and took the JPN Speaking Final even though I knew I would do poorly on it - I suppose that's better than getting a complete zero though. All I can say is if Dad see's said grades he'll be pretty mad. Never mind my DVBI councilor who needs to see them too - I just hope I'm not denied a Clarity because of the grades. On the other hand I will never take another online course again. Half of it isn't accessible and the other half is extremely frustrating. Never mind the fact that my teacher came across as overbearing and belittling. After taking the speaking test for chapter 1 I couldn't bring myself to take any others - save the Final I took last night. My self-esteem is already pretty low as it is. As for the C in Creative Writing, I never turned in a Non-Fiction Narrative pieces, that was when my laptop broke and I was suffering from the catharsis of possibly loosing all of my writing in existance. I couldn't write one coherent piece of writing to save my life at that point. And what's the point of turning one in late if you won't get credit for it? Besides what the hell would I write about?
So needless to say, welcome to the Bad Grade Blues.
December 20th, 2008
Classes are officially over. *dances around with glee* And I made a new friend on Thursday, Emily
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cotume, both of us like many of the same things. I must wonder about Cotune though, she said it had something to do with LotR so my brain is thinking Quenya minus the umlaut? Cotumë perhaps?And on another note I have to ask, why under the Light does WoT (Wheel of Time) have such an engulfing effect on me. Even LotR doesn't draw me in and bind me with weaves of Air like WoT does. I mean my brains starts referencing everything in site in WoT terminology and analogies as well. I do love LotR and HP and all that but it must have something to do with all of Jordan's detail or the fact that he was trying to make his world be "realistic" while still being "fantasy" at the same time. I don't know but WoT tends to do that to me. At least now I now to generally keep my mouth shut like I didn't back in 8th grade when I first began the series. Light, Aes Sedai here and there and everywhere. :) And I think I probably drove everyone crazy with my WoT references back then. :D I'm so glad I can control what comes out of my mouth now. But it doesn't stop me from thinking it of course, but at least no one can look at that.
Notes:
Saidar: The female half of the True Source/One Power, it can only be channeled by women.
Aes Sedai: channelers of the One Power (as of the present only female seeing as the male half of the Source was tainted and any man who channels it goes mad.)
- My Head - The White Tower, Tar Valon.
- Blind Guardian ~ "Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)"
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Calm as an Aes Sedai.
November 24th, 2008
This, may I say would be my imagining of Lanfear in all her dark and beautiful glory. In actuality, this is a digitalized pic of the lead singer of Helalyn Flowers - an Italian Electronic-Rock band - who, while not being the greatest singer in the world can sure photo-shop some awesome badass pics. Anyway, my empitome of aesthetic beauty right there. Period. Mind I had to chop the pic up a bit but I got her face and that's what counts. Damn I hate not having PhotoSuite anymore! I had to screw around with the resizing so I could get rid of the qhite space surrounding the chopped image. Grrrr...I hate Paint! HATRED!!!!! :D
November 21st, 2008
Well, I got an e-mail last Sunday telling me that I made it to the next level of NOVA Idol. Needless to say, I was highly surprised. Now I went ahead and checked the rules to make sure there wasn't anything barring me from entering my own composition as my song - which I really want to do because if I make it to the finals I will have a band accompanying my performance - I just hope I can substitute some of those brass players for strings. *eyes grow huge at thought of big orchestra playing one of her songs* On the other hand what should I compose? But, if I can't come up with anything I'll just do the ultimate "Die Happy" from my beloved Skyward. Of course I'll be doing all the arrangements for my MP3-karaoke-version I send to the judges because the original is a tad bit too high for me to sing. But...I really want to do a symphonic-metal piece but, I have no drummer, basist or an extra guitarist to help me out. My percussion skills are dead awful. *sob* so no symphonic-metal until I can acquire some assistance in those areas. And at the very least I want to do my own stuff (of some sort) so that people can see that I'm a good potential composer of music. I think I really like the idea of composing score pieces for Fantasy-genre video gams and such. It just seems to appear to me more and more every day. Even though I don't/can't play the games I'd love the stories and hey, it's Fantasy after all - the world's most wonderful genre of music/book/tv/you-name-it every! And as the guy who suggested it to me sayd, "Hey, Fantasy RPG battle music, I'm so there."
On another note, I bought a Sansa View 16 GB mp3-player from SanDisk at Best Buy on Sunday. My iPod has been acting strange and I've decided that I've had it with the Apple's what's in iTunes dictates what's on the iPod philosophy. Maybe all my music got wiped out and I can't add anything new onto the iPod until I re-rip everything to my hard-drive. So I got the mp3-player and I can still use the iPod as a back-up - for now at least.
And on another good note, my laptop's been fixed so yay!
November 4th, 2008
The first part of my newest bid for my fiction piece for class. I'm posting it here since I can't find my damn thumb-drive.
THE NEO-ROMANTICS
The front door slammed as Chaad came into the elaborately decorated living room, his large skull-festooned bell-bottoms brushing against the light blue carpet.
"Do you mind?" demanded Carmella, as she turned away from her lengthy Mary-Sue fanfic sprawled out over the family computer screen. Chaad ignored his blue-haired sister and flounced into the kitchen. "Whatever!" called Carmella after him as he went.
Their mother, Flora, was seated at the kitchen table with a large collection of paints, brushes, paper and an occasional ink-well sprawled messily across the table, the large vase of blue flowers had been moved to the kitchen counter.
"How was your day honey?" Flora asked. Chaad just grunted and opened the fridge and retrieved a can of Pepsi. Seeing as the kitchen table was quite overloaded with his mother's art supplies, he decided to trump upstairs to his room and play his x-Box.
This was normally how an afternoon for the Klevingr family went: Carmella would arrive home from school first and lay claim to the computer. Later, Chaad would come home after hanging out with his friends at Ming-Yen's Chinese Food Take-Out which was a popular Teen Oasis as it were. But soon all this would change.
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Avariticus sighed as he thumped his brief-case onto the blue-carpeted floor next to the front door. "What a day!" he exclaimed, glancing over to where Carmella still sat in front of the computer. "Still writing I see," he said with a smile.
"Of course Daddy," Carmella said sweetly. Avariticus decided it would be best to leave his daughter to her fanfiction and walked into the kitchen.
"Welcome home, Ryss," Flora - who had attempted to force her art project into a single messy pile on the kitchen counter so she could pop a long succession of microwave dinners into the microwave for everyone's dinner. It was no secret that no one in the family liked to cook - that's what the microwave was for after all.
"Hey love," Avariticus said walking over to embrace his wife and giving her a kiss.
"How was work?" Flora asked. Avariticus grimaced.
"As sleazy and noir-esque as always," he took a seat at the kitchen table and ran a hand through his dark brown hair. "I managed to get this one woman put in jail for not paying her lawyer court costs. Needless to say, Killagain & Killagain was able to seize all of her assets." Flora smiled genially.
"Well, that's how things are done in this corrupt world of ours," Flora replied. She had to admire her husband, while he was a ruthless, cruel, almost sadistic lawyer who would go to any means (provided they were legal of course) to complete his job when he was out of the office however, he was the most loving, caring and honest individual in the whole wide world.
"So they are," agreed Avariticus. Because of his devious profession, the family could live in "artistic" extravagance within the limits of their single-family residential home. Not that the neighbors appreciated it much of course. At that moment, one of the pot-pies dinged and Flora went to take it out of the microwave. She set it on the counter and proceeded to heat up the others in quick succession. Then she walked to the large ornately carved dome-shaped doorway which separated the kitchen from the living room and yelled: "Dinner!" There was a loud thump from upstairs as Chaad exited his room and came down the stairs.
"Chaad my man," said Avariticus cheerfully as he patted his son on the back who ignored his fathers greeting.
"What's for dinner," he grumbled. Flora sighed and placed a pot pie in front of him.
"If you're going to be like that, maybe you should leave the table," she said sternly. Then she turned to the ornately carved doorway once more and called for Carmella.
"But this is the most important part of the fic," the blue-haired girl's voice drifted into the kitchen. "Draco is asking Amaretta out on a date to Hogsmeade--" Flora sighed and cut her off.
"I'm sore your fanfiction can wait to be completed after dinner, you have been working on it all afternoon."
"Fine," after a few moments Carmella appeared in her green pull-over and purple skirt. Flora set a pot-pie in front of her. She then took the remaining two and placed one in front of her husband and the other at her place next to him at the table. Chaad had picked up his fork and was about to stick it into his pot-pie but his mother shot him a reproving look and he put it down.
"We must not forget whom to thank for this wonderful meal," Flora began soberly.
"The grocery store?" asked Chaad.
"No, the Goddess you stupid," muttered Carmella.
"That's enough you two," Avariticus broke in. Chaad glowered at everything within sight as his mother - along with Carmella - recited the blessing. Afterwards, everyone ate in relative silence which was only to be interrupted by the sound of the telephone.
"I'll get it," said Carmella. She rose to her feet and walking over to the small side table on which the phone sat, picked it up. "Hello," she said in a breathy voice. She listened for a moment and then said, "oh....it's for you Mom," Flora got to her feet and took the phone from her daughter.
"Arysta, why what a surprise, how are you?" she asked in a voice full of forced politeness. Then her face fell and she frowned. "I suppose I mean, we do have a guestroom..." Avariticus glanced at his wife knowing that if it involved her sister Arysta, it wouldn't be too good of a situation. "Look, Arri, let me talk to Ryss about it OK? I'll call you back, uh-huh, bye." She dropped the phone onto its receiver with a monotone thud and went back to the kitchen table.
"What does your sister want?" asked Avariticus.
"Fabian has gone missing, she wants to single-handedly look for him and she wants to know if we could take Julianna in for a little while."
"No. Way." Carmella's horrified face stood out against the blue of her shoulder-length straight blue hair. "She's...she's a--"
"It's not like we've ever actually meet her," added Chaad abandoning his gloomy facade for a moment.
"Oh, we don't have to..." insisted Carmella. "She's probably just like Aunt Arri, a real nasty cross between Lanfear (1), Bellatrix Lestrange on a good day and--" Chaad cut her off.
"You're the only one who reads those..." he made a face. Carmella shot him a nasty look in return.
"Fine, she's probably--" but Flora gave her daughter a dark look and Carmella closed her mouth.
"Julianna is your cousin and while Arri has her faults," she made a face, "she's still family." No one else said anything after that. Chaad and Carmella put their pot-pie tins in the garbage and retreated to their respective domains - Chaad in his room with his X-Box and Carmella in front of the computer to keep working on her fanfic. This left Flora and Avariticus quite alone to discuss the matter in relative peace.
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Several days later, Carmella found herself sitting on the living room couch unable to concentrate on the computer for once. Her mother had decided to let Julianna stay over for a while and today was the big day - within a matter of minutes, her cousin would knock on the door and all hell would break loose, or at least that was how Carmella saw it. Her mother was in the kitchen as usual, playing some Enya off her small boom-box on the side-table where the phone resided as she read the last Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle novels, Brisingr. The soothing sound of "Teahouse Moon" off of the Memory of Trees CD drifted into the living room which sadly, failed to calm Carmella's nerves. At long last, the doorbell rang. Carmella got to her feet and opened the door. Before her stood a girl who was extremely tall and looked as if she walked out of an Anne Rice novel...not that Carmella read those of course...eww...
"Hi..." Carmella began. The girl smiled darkly.
"You must be Carmella," she said in a freakishly melodious voice. Carmella nodded. "Is that Enya I hear?" the girl asked.
"Yeah," Carmella stepped back. Julianna swept across the threshold looking like a dark queen in her floor-length black robe-like gown adorned with red and her long jet-black hair - which Carmella supposed she dyed as her mother's family usually had hair of the violet colored verity. Her black eyes surveyed the room before she made her way into the kitchen gliding across the floor. Carmella made a face as she followed her.
Flora looked up from her book. "Oh, Julianna I presume?" she asked.
""Auntie Flora," Julianna said grandly, actually curtsying for all she was worth. Flora put down Brisingr and gave her niece a serious look.
"Please, just call me Flora, and while it is nice to allow our minds to wander off into the realm of ancient kings, warriors and princess and mages as well we, sadly, do live in 21st Century American suburbia which, has no place, I fear, for such...ravishingly dark...fashions," she frowned at Julianna's floor-length dress, not withstanding her dark makeup. Julianna blinked as if she couldn't quite understand what her aunt was saying before deciding that she hadn't heard it and turned to the fridge.
"Do you have any soda perhaps?" she asked. Carmella appeared in the doorway.
"Now there's something they don't have in Cairhien (2)," she muttered.
"Bottom shelf on the left," said Flora automatically ignoring Carmella's snide retort.
"Thank you," she reached into the fridge and retrieved a can of Dr. Pepper and took a seat at the kitchen table, carefully arranging her skirts as if she really was an esteemed noblewoman. Carmella made a silent gagging sound in her throat and left the kitchen. She plunked herself down in front of the computer and decided to read some LotR fanfiction to take her mind off her delusional cousin.
(1) Lanfear: an antagonist of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, she is an extremely beautiful and arrogant "sorceress" who wishes to take over the world among other things.
(2) Cairhien (kye-REE-ehn) a fictional country within the same series which is much like a pseudo-medieval kingdom which, would not possess any soda whatsoever.
amusedNovember 2nd, 2008
I'm frustrated by several things:
a) My laptop is broken/I don't have my files.
b) I'm trying to figure out the etymology for sorjen. I want to use Sorjen (SOR-yen) as a name for a character of mine but according to the lyrics for "Vedergällningen" from where I heard the word, it´s spelled sorgen and not with a J... However the Wiktionary says that there is a Swedish verb sörja which means "sorrow/to grieve" as does sorgen from the song...so I"m nicely confused. Is it spelled either way with the J or G or is it two different words or what?
Anyway, I still want my character to be called Sorjen with or without the umlaut - which may be needed for the "sorrow" meaning. And I need to come up with something for my fiction piece for creative writing. I thought about doing a vampire story - seeing as it's around Halloween. The problem is where to start said story and how the hell to keep it under 5 double-spaced freaking pages. I originally started with Eva and her classmates leaving the last dregs of modern civilization and turning their crappy ass tour bus onto a dirt path leading to a foreboding old castle on a craggy cliff. But just getting Eva herself to the castle takes 6 single-spaced pages so I thought maybe I should start it after Eva and her classmates have already arrived at Castle Zhestokaya (as I've decided to call the place). Or maybe I should write/turn in something else entirely, I feel a little embarrassed about my liking for vampire romance fiction...anyway...
All I can say is I can't wait until I can go to Charlotte's and get my laptop fixed - hopefully or at least get my files. Of course I may not end up with either but for the sake of avoiding panic attacks we're not going to think about that right now thank you very much. :)
Oh what do I do....October 20th, 2008
I fucking hate this! I'm sick as hell and my laptop stopped working on Thursday night. It wanted to reboot after running automatic updates and I guess I accidentally told it to do so and then the comp played the sound which meant that it was shutting off - but it had frozen so I pressed and held the Power button and shut it off. Since then it just endlessly reboots and none of the other modes will work either. And to make things worse, I didn't end up backing up my files - because at the time I was last thinking about it I didn't want to fight with the "Enable Disk Use" option on iTunes 7 so my iPod could be used as a massive thumb drive. Now I wish I had hunted it down and turned it on. Who the hell would want an option for that anyway? If you don't wanna use your iPod as a mass storage device, don't freaking load anything on there via My Computer! Anyway all my music may be lost (and all my updated docs - since a certain date) if I have the main collection on my thumb disk - if not I've lost everything!!!! *starts to cry* I don't know if any of the data can be retrieved from the hard drive if the comp won't even start in safe mode.
And lets say that we can't get the OS installation disks for my laptop (since everything is turning Vista) I'll have to buy a whole new comp - which I have NO money to pay for. I just hope I can get the OS installation disk from Toshiba FREE OF CHARGE - along with a new F2 key cover, *smiles*, and then have the comp up and running again with or without my files...
Oh, and don't get me started on the coming of winter.
SORCERESS A: We art entering the Dark Spiral from which we shalt not return until January cometh forth again - or at least for the hope of the return of longer days and warmer weather. [bows.]
SORCERESS 2: You speak with truth Sorceress 1, indeed thou doth. [SORCERESS A smiles bleakly.] So we shall huddle together as the harsh night cometh on wards and the wind chills our very souls in deepest shadow.
[Exit both SORCERESSES A and B.]
HATRED!! Gimme My COMP BACK!!!October 11th, 2008
Later this evening my friend was telling me about faux-Cyrillic and the heavy-metal umlaut so when I got online later I grabbed Wikipedia and read about it. Collectively the concept is called foreign branding - using foreign-sounding names/foreign spellins and "gratuitous diacritics" to market/sell a product. As for the heavy-metal umlaut it's used to denote Nordo-Germanic roots or all-around "toughness" without changing the pronunciation of the word(s) involved. For example lets say you had a band called Hot Songs to make it look cool they might represent it as Höt Söngs, however for us people who know how that would be pronounced it tends to give us massive headaches. With the added umlauts it would be properly pronounced "Hute Sungs" with the U in the latter word being long like in "rule". So...yeah the brain tends to have an overload. It's not as bad when I don't know how it should be pronounced like ÿ, I don´t know, I just know ä is long like in lane and ö is pronounced like a U. Any other umlauts, while being wrong, won´t give me me as much of a headache because I don´t know how they´re supposed to be pronounced. Yet anyway.
And then we hit the wonderful joy of faux-Cyrillic which takes Cyrillic characters and puts them in place of Roman ones which lok similar such as ДMВЭГ, for the word Amber. Now that too tends to give me a nice-sized head-ache because I know what the Cyrillic is supposed to spell out/represent which would be transliterated as
ДMВэГ
DMVZG
So, serious eye-sore besides offending the native speakers of said languages. Now I don't think this would apply to words whose diacritics actually change how the word is to be pronounced such as, Dän (DANE) for dan (DAN) the umlaut changes how the vowel is to be pronounced. Now as for invented languages such as the one from which the word Ån (ANE) and Ånái (AY-NAH-EE) come front the angstrom makes the A long in place of the umlaut, and yes, I admit it makes it look much better but since this is an invented language I could use the angstrom for the capital long As and an umlaut for the lower-case ones - just as long as I stick to the rule. Sadly I think the angstrom is supposed to be pronounced like a long O such as it the name Skåne probably should be pronounced like English scone. *sob* but I like long A marked with an angstrom...*cries*
On another note, I get a four day weekend since there's no class on Monday and Tuesday. Yay for me! But on the other hand I have a good amount of JPN and Music Theory homework to catch up on. so maybe not...
okayOctober 4th, 2008
It's finally the weekend and October which means Halloween! One of the greatest holidays of the year. A day on which one can safely honor their Dark Side as it were.
My friend and I were thinking of hosting a Halloween party since neither of us ever end up being invited to one so... Either way I'm totally going to be Lanfear for Halloween. I'm gonna dye my hair black, use one of those hair straighteners to make it wavy and I even have a pristine white dress adorned with silver. All I need now is to find some crescent moon and star jewelry to complete the outfit. SO LANFEEEEARRRRR!!! *dances around with barely contained excitement*