Jacob

weaponx2032 @ 12:26pm: So today I start my vacattion birthday. I don't have to see work until next Monday. Today I need to put my textbooks on amazon for resale(I need to make SOME money back from that class considering I bombed them and my work won't give any money back for classes that I make less than a C in.), finish the moving process and... I don't think anything else. Meh

But for my birthday me + a few others are going to be at the Pearl on the 15th. 11:00 pm- ???? For those who can, I would love to see you there. If you need address or directions drop me a comment or give me a call 210-6194. Anyway, time to go visit the Mrs. at work :)

iatethecookie @ 12:13am: my reading so far in 2008
Here are the books I have completed in no particular order:
Demian : Hermann Hess (a coming of age story about a german youth and his experiences with good and evil)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls : Robert Heinlein (basically a sci-fi mind fart)
I Will Fear No Evil : Robert Heinlein (old horny man becomes young horny woman)
Glory Road : Robert Heinlein (a fantasy adventure, the Heinlein way)
The Moor's Last Sigh : Salmon Rushdie (magical/realist family drama about Indian spice merchants/criminals/artists)
The Fountainhead : Ayn Rand (ojectivist propaganda, better novel than Atlas Shrugged)
Prabhupada : Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami (Hare Krishna propaganda concerning the life of their founder)
The Death of Vishnu : Manil Suri (magical/realist slice of life in a Mumbai apartment building where the odd job man is dying on the staircase)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores : Gabriel Marquez (short tale of an old man and his new found love)
Perfume : Patrick Suskind (tale of a killer who hunts for scent)
Pilgermann : Russell Hoban (another mind fart, this dealing with the crusades)
Pet Semetary : Stephen King (first King book I have enjoyed all the way through)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : James Joyce (difficult to read coming of age tale, this time in Ireland)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich : Alexander Solzhenitsyn (depressing/uplifting slice of life for a political prisoner during the days of Stalin)
How Like a God : Rex Stout (20's noir drama told in the SECOND PERSON)

grace_in_spades @ 11:30pm:  

rowangirl @ 10:12pm: Woohoo!
I got my grades for the semester today.  I am SO excited!  I ended up with three A's and one B.  I didn't except two of those A's so that's a nice surprise!  Seriously, an A in Fingerspelling?  How the fuck did that happen?!  This is a great way to end a semester that got a bit rocky towards the end with personal issues.  I feel like this is more affirmation that I'm on the right track.  I need to keep in practice with my ASL this summer, and I definitely need to review my Spanish (I thought that my final was abysmal, maybe I was wrong?) but my grades make me feel like this is doable for me.  I might just be able to pull of my aspiration of being a trilingual interpreter.  And if I can do that, what else can I do that I always imagined but never thought was actually possible?

I'm probably reading way too much into this, but like I said, I'm excited!  :)

karen25 @ 9:21pm: Quick note before bed
I fear I know the answer, but, is anyone else going to Coldplay in July?  Anyone?  Coldplay? 

Anyone?

samuraislider @ 1:44pm: :O
New Oz movie announced! :O



By me that is. @_@

iatethecookie @ 1:40pm: ugh
I have a headache brought on by my conjested sinuses and (I am guessing ) the large amount of chocolate I just ate. All I want to do for the rest of the day is lay in the tub and read Salmon Rushdie. I will possibly smoke clove cigarettes and listen to French internet radio. 

Imagine all this with a moustache...yeah I hope I just ruined someone's day...

gobi @ 10:20am: [Do] Keep those beta test applications coming!


I made the announcement kinda late in the promotional cycle last week, so I'm posting another reminder: Beta testing begins mid-June 2008.

We've already got a little over ten applications from groups around the world, including what seems to be one of those hippie Jeepform enclaves in Europe. :O

If you'd like to to be a beta tester or you know some people who would, fill out the application for your chance to get first dibs on the playtest PDF.

We're looking for lots of different types of groups, but I'm personally interested in how the game handles with a group of players more experienced with board games and/or video games than tabletop RPGs. If your group applies, then you might get preferential attention. ;)

Spread the word on forums n' stuff, too.

iatethecookie @ 8:32am: more sillyness...
I discovered on Friday that I had (unknowingly I might add) begun growing a moustache once more. Since I am not embarking on a career in law enforcement or porn, I have decided to allow myself a full beard this week. The full beard will convince bystanders that there is nothing to fear, until next weekend when the moustache shall return in all its horror!

I spent much of the weekend with my nose jammed into copy of The Moor's Last Sigh by Salmon Rushdie. I don't know if any of you have read any of Rushdie's books, but I usually enjoy them. 

I have had many strange dreams in the last couple days that included mechanical pomegranates, lectures on the Russian revolution, alternate reality versions of myself, a canoe that sank beneath the weight of a wormhole generator, and scores of other oddities. 

Granny Smith apples are good, but something about their shine doesn't seem natural. I rinse them off vigorously, but the shine remains...

 

rowangirl @ 11:43am: Mother's Day
I still can't believe that I'm a mom.  You'd think that after two years it would kind of have sunken in, but no.  When I think of Mothers, I think of older women (well, older than me)  who have all their shit together and would never say something like "have all their shit together."  I feel like I'm too young and way too immature to be someone's mother.  That is a HUGE responsibility!  It's really very scary when I think about it.  According to Freud, I would be solely responsible for anything that's wrong with her as an adult.  Not that I believe Freud, I think that he was a fucked-up, wack-job who had his own Mommy Issues.  But still, moms are seen as being very important in the development of a child.  And to think that I'm the one shaping Evelyn is a little freaky.  I'm really glad that she's getting to spend so much time with my mother.  My mom is much more like a "normal" mom than I am.  But maybe she just seems that way because she's my mom and she's my standard for "normal."  Either way, I think it's great that Evelyn basically has three mommies taking care of her.  How could a kid help but not feel incredibly loved?

Speaking of loved, I got some wonderful Mother's Day cards this year.  They make me feel all warm and tingly when I think about them.  :)  It's so nice to know that people think I'm doing a good job since mothering is something that I'm still pretty insecure about.  Although I'm not sure if that ever goes away.  I have a sneaking suspicion that you might always wonder if you're doing everything right.

Today is an absolutely gorgeous day outside, so I think I'm going to enjoy my downtime while Evelyn's napping and go sit outside and read.  It's been a good day.  :)

karen25 @ 9:12pm: He wrote again!
'dam your fine to bad your a good girl'

I want to write him back and ask how often this works, if ever.  What do you guys think? 

He does have a point; I am, indeed, fine, and it *is* 'to bad' I'm a good girl.  :P

rowangirl @ 6:07pm: nice
So far this has been a nice weekend.  Chris and I went to see Speed Racer on the IMAX screen at the new theater that just opened up a couple months ago.  It was a very fun movie to watch and it was also entertaining.  I think that IMAX helped to make it even more interesting since the best parts of the movie are visual.  It was candy for my eyes!  We came home, grabbed some food, and watched an episode of Invisible Man.  We've been sloooowly working our way through the series.  I'm happy that so far it's living up to everything that I remember.  Of course it's not as amazingly cool as seeing the episodes for the first time, and I don't have a message board to post on full of fans who are all geeking out about the show like I did the first time around, but it's still fun.  There is definitely some nostalgia factor for me, but Chris seems to be enjoying it too.  Evelyn woke up from her nap during the episode and ended up watching the last half-hour or so with us.  I really didn't think that she's sit through it, I thought that we were going to need to stop it and play in her play room, but she actually sat with me (for most of it) and watched it.  She has good taste in television already.  ;)

So basically my day has been watching Speed Racer, watching Invisible Man, and chilling out with Evelyn.  That's a pretty nice day.  I keep having that gnawing feeling at the back of my brain that there's homework I should be doing, but there's not!  I'm done!  How long is it going to take to realize that?  Probably until it's time to go back to school again.  I do want to work on my Spanish over the summer.  I'm not happy with where I was the end of the semester.  I want to fully know everything from the chapters we did so that I can start the next level with a very solid base to build on.  I have some stuff that I can do to prepare, I just need to make sure that it actually happens.

I'm supposed to be going to a bachelorette party tonight, but I really don't want to go.  I don't like driving down town, I don't know my way around, and the only person that I'm going to know there is the bachelorette and her sister (who I hardly know).  Honestly, I'd rather stay home and watch the crappy SciFi Channel movie tonight.  I'm sure that makes me a horrible friend, but I just have no enthusiasm about going.  And I don't want to go there with a bad attitude.  I feel guilty, but really, there are going to be so many people there and she's going to be so busy that it probably won't even bother her that I'm not there..... I hope.

Anyway, Evelyn calls.

gobi @ 2:45pm: Mandatory Weekend
The electricity is being re-wired at the office and I'm visiting mom tomorrow. What that means? Cooking.

Red beans and rice, a mix n' match recipe. I pulled together some diced tomatoes, red and white onion, three stalks of celery in a pan of olive oil. A few teaspoons of red and black pepper to add some kick.



Served on a bed of basmati rice, seasoned with sazón goya.



Not the most flattering of backgrounds, but it was tasty nonetheless.

mdrndaymercutio @ 1:55am: Hung out with a rather cute lady today amongst a big group and realized how bad my issues can get. Aside from a joke or two I literally could not talk. To her or to anyone. The situation I was in, which normally wouldn't have gotten to me so much, really fucked with me. Than loud music made me over the top. I became completely overwhelmed and the rest of my day was thrown off.

Not saying I needed to hook up or get a number or anything. But at least trying to talk, actually meet her and shit woulda been nice. I'm normally okay with this but the begining to the outting threw me off so fucking much. And than little things kept it going that I could barely have cared about before. My psyche has gotten ludicrously fragile and it's not good for me. Not good at all.

In other news Speed Racer is fucking awesome.

iatethecookie @ 8:22pm: ugh
I just totally watched Blackula...and the sun ain't even down!

Also someone recently said that I would never be anything more than white trash...

karen25 @ 6:32pm: The roofing people finally came by and did my estimate today.  The roof itself is less than I thought, $2,640.  They want to do the dettached garage, too, and I'm thinking that it would be cheaper to do both at once.  This will bring it up to $3,340.  More than I'd planned on, but having an solid estimate is a big weight off of my mind, for some reason.  :)

I just need... thinks and does math in head...  $1,000 more.  I can do that.  My mom is offering to give me her tax rebate, too, which on one hand makes me feel like a loser but on the other hand is free money.  :P

I got a great call last night - my friend Amy and her husband started taking Financial Peace University!  I'm pretty sure they would have done it anyway, but I sort of feel like I helped tell them about it!  w00t!  I try really hard not to lecture people about how awesome DR is, but DR is awesome, and I'm SOOO happy to see a friend getting on board.  Yay!

Anyway.  Another weekend, another attempt to force myself to mow the lawn.  We'll see how this goes! 

anomalous @ 11:24am: english dept graduation tomorrow
WHY AM I STILL MISSING TWO OF MY GRADES, CAROLINA?


grrrrrrrr.

also, today i am packing up my life to leave for charlotte. i'm excited, but it's strange to me. and i'm realizing this is the first time i'm wholly leaving a place, because when i left for college i still had a home there to return to...but this is the end of me and carrboro. and carrboro is the place that gave me a lot of gifts. stuff like a community, and like growing up and kicking ass, that i did not own before i came here.

i spent yesterday evening with becky. she gave me a beautiful birthday present and a giftcard to ulta! we went on a walk and ended up sitting on a blanket in her tiny townhome yard watching sheet lightning and talking about novels. and then we watched like eight episodes of gilmore girls and looked at furniture online and planned out my future home,

and i don't know what i'm going to do about  moving away from her. she's the kind of friend that you can do all the cheesy crap you want to do with and it's perfect. we can rhapsodize over coffee places and atmospheres and books and tea parties and yet, somehow, it never gets uncomfortably sentimental. because it's not fake, maybe? and because it's always balanced with terrible jokes. she also knows how to make lattes all by herself. and she feeds me chocolate squares and almonds every time i come over. sigh.

tonight is for steven, hopefully, and tomorrow is breakfast with emily and then my family and matt get here and chaos will reign until we're back on our way to charlotte and then i'm done with college.

weird.

iatethecookie @ 8:30am: why do I always get sick when it is nice outside?
So since Tuesday I have had some sort of bug. I had two days of sore throat, one day of coughing fits, and now I have a nose that doesn't work properly. I feel like I am going to blow a shoggoth out of my nose (yeah I know I have used this joke before, but it amuses me to type it). 

Last night I went to the vigil at UNCC, and it was really nice. Lots of people said lots of nice things, and it was amazing to see how many people one person had touched.  

I might spend the night at home since I am poor, I am not going to Radiohead, and I don't feel very well. I might skip the gym too, hopefully feeling better tomorrow. Of course something will probably get me all animated again by the end of the day so who knows what I will really do this weekend...

rowangirl @ 11:52pm: I am done!!
I had my last final today.  I think it went okay.  I'm a little sad that I'm not going to see some of those people again, but some of them will be around in the fall.  That's one thing about being in the interpreting program, it's the only one around so you're going to see the same people over and over again. I'm so glad that it's over!  I feel much less stressed. I actually.... I am so not paying attention to this.  Jenn is watching The Office and I keep losing my train of thought.  So I'll make this brief, I only have one thought left that I remember.  This has been a very busy semester for me.  I'm going to school, I'm a Mommy, I'm getting a divorce, and I'm dating!  I think that's enough for one person.  :p

samuraislider @ 2:30pm: Another D-Ball teaser

iatethecookie @ 1:17pm: sputter
so Tuesday and Wednesday I had the sore throat and headache. today I have the phantom cough and sneeze. I am drinking orange juice, but I am angry that I might not make it to they gym. like a teenage girl I am disgusted by my thickness...

iatethecookie @ 9:04am: Spork hoarder!
 It is very rare that our office has any form of eating utinsill. That is why I have embarked on a hunting trip of sorts, and gathered a rather large number of sporks in my desk drawer. No more eating with hands!!!

The whole situation at Jackson's seems to have gotten really strange. My friend Sara got harassed by detectives and reporters. I hope that something comes to light soon, I think that many of us need some sort of closure. I am thinking about going to the vigil tonight, I seem to honor the dead more than the living...

I am currently reading The Moor's Last Sigh by Salmon Rushdie. I am enjoying it, like I do most books that detail the history of wealthy and destructive families....

gobi @ 7:30am: [Do] Beta Test Apps and Progress Report


Beta tester applications are trickling in from all over the place. It's funny how many groups are signing up because one of their members wrote a letter wwwwwaaaaayy back when I did an open call for submissions. Looks like that collaborative initiative paid off. :D

As for the non-collaborative stuff, that's a bit tougher. I've been up since 3am hashing out some loose ends in the document. Ryan Macklin's on the case, working his editing wizardry on my clumsy prose and sausage-fingered attempts at wit.

When he gets edits to me, I'll design a snazzy PDF and send it on to the beta testers in mid-June.

rowangirl @ 3:33pm: I want a drink, a nap, a small cry, and a hug all at the same time.  Tomorrow is my last day of finals, that will make things easier.

gobi @ 9:25am: [Do] Open call for Beta Testers


Beta testing begins mid-June 2008.

Fill out the application for your chance to get first dibs on the playtest PDF.

Spread the word on forums n' stuff, too.