Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Soundtrack of my Life (idea stolen from this guy)

It was REALLY hard to narrow down some of them. And others, it was a struggle getting just one.


opening credits: Amphetamine by Everclear
waking-up scene: Daysleeper by REM
average-day scene: Best Imitation of Myself by Ben Folds Five
best-friend scene: Last Night by The Strokes
first-date scene: Rock Show by Blink 182
falling-in-love scene: F.N.T. by Semisonic
love scene: Everlong by The Foo Fighters
fight-with-friend scene: Yeah, Whatever by Splender
break up scene: There are lots of good breakup songs I thought of, but I have to go with the obvious, Song For the Dumped by Ben Folds Five
get-back-together scene: I’m a Fool by American Hi-Fi
fights-at-home scene: Something’s Always Wrong by Toad The Wet Sprocket
'life's okay' scene: Back Door by CCR
heartbreak scene: Shimmer by Fuel
having fun and doing stupid things with friends scene: Pretty Fly For a White Guy by The Offspring
lovesick scene: Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung
mental-breakdown scene: Pardon Me by Incubus
happy realization scene: Out of Routine by Idlewild
driving scene: Open Road Song by Eve 6/The Vast Spoils of America by Saves the Day
lesson-learning scene: Little Discourage by Idlewild
deep-thought scene: Scarborough Fair/Canticle by Simon and Garfunkel
flashback scene: Little Things by Good Charlotte
party scene: Fight For Your Right To Party by The Beastie Boys
regret scene aka the ''i fucked up and now im really really sorry and i feel like shit about it' scene: My Own Worst Enemy by Lit
happy-dance song: Whoop There it Is by Tag Team
long-night-alone scene: Lucky Denver Mint by Jimmy Eat World
closing credits: Rockin’ The Suburbs by Ben Folds Five
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Stupid piece of crap ISU advisors. Today, I learned of the perfect minor for me: Cinema Studies.

I would've jumped on this minor even a semester ago. But now..... I'd have to get 18 hours of courses done in one semester (plus all the work I still have left in my major) if I wanted to graduate on time. Hell, even if I COULD breathe under a massive load like that, I couldn't take them all at once anyway because of prereqs.

I HATE my current minor. HATE it. I said awhile ago "I will kill myself if I have to take 169 again." Well I DO have to take 169 again. And it SUCKS ASS. But I stuck with it because I wanted to graduate on time/didn't know of any minors that were all that great anyway.

Well, if I'd known about cinema studies, I would've switched, despite graduating slightly slower. As opposed to now, when switching would put me GROSSLY BEHIND. Which would be kind of a problem if I even liked college, but especially sucks because I HATE IT AT THIS HELLHOLE.

I only even learned of the minor just now from someone who had it. My shitty, shitty advisors never breathed a word of this to me. BASTARDS. BASTARDS.

I'm going to talk to an advisor (even though they're bastards) tomorrow about maybe switching, if it's possible at all.... which I doubt it is. GAAAH.
Well, I thought I was done with papers for this semester.

But no, I have to write a 4-6 page paper analyzing a movie for Media Writing.

For a long time I've been thinking of this (even before I knew it'd be so loooong) and I had pretty much decided on Pleasantville. It's classier than most movies I'm into, it's not going to be a movie every moron in my class is going to pick, and I have seen it several times and know it pretty well.

But today, I was like, I should do something totally unclassy. And not popular unclassy. Just plain goofy, but loveable, like Honey I Shrunk The Kids or something. Or The Cutting Edge. Or a kids movie.

Or do something truly awful like a Vin Diesel movie and really tear into how horrible it is. Can you see the prof having to wade thru a 6 page paper on like, Pokemon: The Movie or The Scorpion King? (yes, I know--neither of these feature Vin, but I just thought of them) Difficult decision.
It's weird, I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on my sitcom from friends, I'm interested in seeing what the prof has to say about it.

In fact, several people were all, "You should really make it! And MC Hammer's not doing anything, you could probaby give him a $20, and he'd star in it in a minute!" Now I all wish I DID have the resources to make it. Maybe someday.

And if it did get popular, E! would do a thing on it, and they'd be like, "How did you come up with such a great idea?" and I could be like, "It was a school project. I got a B. I think the prof would agree now that it's A material. *arrogant laugh*"

(I did get a B on the first article. Possibly I'll get an A on this *crosses fingers*)
Hmm, lots of my prof's have been story-y lately. Today the TV prof took time out of class to tell us about this criminal guy who ran into a wall because he was too busy cussing out reporters to look where he was going.

Good times.

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

You've gotta love a professor that tells the class a story about how he blew himself up trying to set fire to several groundhog holes.
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
Have you looked at my sitcom?
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says:
Not yet.
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says
You should. it's aaaawesome
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says:
I'll take your word for it until I have time to read it
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
*sad face*
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says
Beh
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says:
I'm self-pitying here!
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
but it would cheer you up
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
I make fun of an 80's rap icon
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
no better cure for heartache
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says:
LOL
Phoe - I'm hip hop (on paper) says:
I'll make fun of Sir Mix a Lot for you next, if you want
Wanda ~ Misfit, I sit, lit up, wicked says:
Who?
Wooo! Done with my sitcom.

e-mail me if you want to read it (self esteem requires me to pretend someone will want to read it besides the people I'm going to foist it on anyway)
I rocked the radio practical!

I got a 90%, when I hadn't looked at the sheet for months!

And it wasn't like, stuff we did every day in radio class. It was crazy crap, like putting tone on carts. WOOOO! Go me! And go my nice Lab Instructor for giving partial credit on things!
Argh. I promised myself I wouldn't get into A Simple Plan.

Monday, April 28, 2003

Also: a couple other problems with the sitcom

1) Slang. I'm finding it very difficult to write the English drummer's English slang. I'm also finding it difficult to write the lead singer's street-slang. I'd dispose of at least the lead singer's slang, but if I write it the way I generally write things, the lead singer and the bassist (who talks regular) sound like the same person. Hell, even with the slang, the English girl gets kind of cardboardy too. My problem is I have troubles making characters say something different from what I'd say if I were in that same situation. So it's like regular me (bassist), street-slang me (lead singer), English me (drummer) as opposed to regular me, regular me, regular me. But I'm bad at the slang.

2) Resolving the plot. Getting MC Hammer out of their house. Proving difficult. I was originally trying to find a way for them to remove the reason they even let Hammer in the house (he's blackmailing the bassist with pictures of him in a mullet), but I wasn't sure how to go about that. I've had several other good suggestions: have Eminem come over and scare him out, get MC Hammer to join the latest Eagles reunion tour.... But those both sound sort of deus ex machina. (Yeah, I can't believe I used a term with "god" in it to describe Don Henley and Eminem either)

3) My characters are TRYING to be funny, because I'm trying to be funny. Like always, I just have them sitting around and insulting each other while the occaisional little thing happens to them. I should work harder to make the characters do things instead of just have them happen to them. Also, my character's reactions to the situation should be funny, rather than them trying to be funny. That is why it's a "situation comedy."

All of this: easier said than done. easier said than written, anyway....
So I had my lunch with the prof from my England trip, Igraine, Chris, and Cory.

Good times. It's weird how sometimes you don't realize how much you miss a person until you see him/her again. It was nice.

But while I sat there, with among other people, 2 prospective lawyers who make great grades, one complaining about how she couldn't fit all of the relevant information on her resume, me knowing I have to pad to make a one page resume. Going to be kicked out of the honors program for failing 169. Etc. I began to feel kind of bad about myself. What in the hell have I been doing the last 3 years?

The prof was really nice, though. Somehow the group got on the subject of reference letters, and I ended up mentioning that he was probably the only prof I could put on anything. I've failed to maintain friendships with the few profs who have any idea whatsoever who I am, I guess. Anyway, he said that he doesn't like to do reference letters for people unless he thinks he could write a really strong one, and I was like, "could you write a really strong one for me?" and he said he could. So I know where to go if I need a reference, I guess.

Also: I got to mentioning the sitcom I'm writing. Igraine pulled a "what in the hell are you on?" face when I mentioned some of the jokes I thought were funniest, worrying me, but since then I've talked to a few other people, and they think it's funny. Also, someone said something about seeing it on the air someday, and I was like, "Yeah, I'd be surprised." The prof was like, "I'd be surprised if it didn't get on the air someday. You are one of the brightest, most creative students I've ever had." That totally warmed the cockles of my heart. Though at the same time I'm a bit suspicious of it. He's never read any of my creative writing. A lot of people say nice things about my writing, but they're all my friends. Strangers, such as the people I worked with on the radio proj, seem a bit turned off by my writing ideas. I always wonder who's opinion is closer to the truth......

Oh well. Time to get to class.

Sunday, April 27, 2003

Well I actually managed to start my sitcom last night. It's probably not professional caliber, but it's pretty damn good for a single inexperienced writer. I ended up going with "MC Hammer as unpleasant houseguest." I actually started with "the Itching Monkey Dogs volunteer as Big Brothers/Big Sisters," but nothing would come. But I have 3 or 4 scenes of MC Hammer being unpleasant, so woo, way to be unpleasant MC Hammer. I also have to write a bit of description/action of the chars while their not talking into the script, but that should also be easy.

Best of all, it's not as long as I thought it would be. 10 pages is a lot, but it's about half as much in the script form he wants us to use. The only long/difficult part will probably be the treatment, where I explain the whole plot of the show. We're supposed to do that before we write the script, of course, but I'm a rebel, man.

Saturday, April 26, 2003

I'm trying to write a monkeesesque sitcom for my final project in Media Writing starring a band I made up called "The Itching Monkey Dogs." The only problem is while I'm pretty good at characters, I suck at plot. And even when I come up with plots i'm not sure how to execute them. Or which to pick. So here are my plot ideas, and I value input from anyone who leaves a comment:

--Every sitcom at one point or other has the episode with "the unpleasant houseguest." I was originally thinking of M.C. Hammer being the unpleasant houseguest, but my mom also had a the amusing idea of one of the Itching Monkey Dog's Grandmas being the unpleasant houseguest

--The tourbus breaks down in the middle of a small town

--The Itching Monkey Dogs go back in time. Possibly the bassist ends up being his own grandfather, though I probably couldn't get away with this because I stole the idea from Futurama. Possibly they end up meeting The Monkees, which I think would be hilarious but i don't know if I could write it very well because I don't remember specifics about the Monkees or the 70's.

--The Itching Monkey Dogs volunteer to be Big Brothers/Big Sisters

--The Itching Monkey Dogs go on a cruise.

--The Itching Monkey Dogs go to Vegas. Possibly meet Wayne Newton

Several of these my mom actually came up with. She's actually a much better idea person than me.

Friday, April 25, 2003

the spirited part


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I signed up for another e-mail address, so now Oral Sex is properly working again. So if anyone sent me any in the last couple weeks, resend bay-bee!

I'm #3 on google for: pee sex in leg braces

That doesn't count the sponsored link: Proud to be Perverts - See our Pee Sex action! Which you better appreciate the humor in that, because I acidently clicked on that when I was trying to copy it over here and my history/cache is going to keep it in there, and people are going to think I like pee sex action, and it's all your fault!

Also amusing, #2: Trek Nation: a Night In Sickbay. hits like these make me truly, truly disturbed.

I'm #10 on google for: pee sex and teeth braces

Okay, thinking this was the same person, and they were stupid enough to click on my non pee sex related site again. Which, how dumb are you not to click on the pee sex action link, and instead continue 10 down to:

Blogspot * get rid of this ad here
... Which annoys me, because braces hurt a lot, and it'll be for ... I have not brushed my
teeth in four months. ... cup in Coach McGuirk's hand* you want me to pee in that ...

All I'm asking is that the pervs of the world get a bit smarter....
Argh--The TV proj we've been working on ALL SEMESTER almost got derailed. See, our group has to hook up with a member of the advanced class, when there's time in the edit room, to edit together all the footage.

Yeah, too bad we were almost the last group done filming, and didn't talk to someone about hooking up with the advanced students until almost a week later than that, even. Gah, we almost ended up with nothing. And I was especially annoyed, because I was the one who ended up having to call up all these random advanced students we don't know. I hate talking to strangers on the phone.

Anyway, I finally hooked us up, so we'll (HOPEFULLY) be done Wednesday of the last possible week of class. Yeah.

I also have to write a 10 or more page part of a sitcom about the fake band the Itching Monkey Dogs this weekend/last week. *sigh* at least my radio final proj is done.

After all of that, I'll be done...... for like a week, until I have to start summer school. Yay.......
Talia: how is it being in love with Mister Constantinople?
Phoemeister: lol... I really do like him. And I have talked to him a couple times in this other class I have with him. And I know he has the same taste in movies as I do, because we always have to talk about movies in that class
Talia: aww have I heard you mention him before?
Phoemeister: Maybe. Neil?
Talia: nope, I remember a Will for some reason'
Phoemeister: Yeah, Will's the guy in ACS that I'm stalking :P
Talia: cool, I'm not insane that I remember someone named that
Phoemeister: Neil's like Com pretend boyfriend, and Will's like ACS pretend boyfriend.
Phoemeister: yeah :D
Phoemeister: I like them both. Especially since I've actually talked to them on occaision, which is more than I can say for most guys I like, but the talking has sort of trickled off, and I don't know if I said something, or it's just random trickling off
Talia: hehe your like me, if you see a guy look at you, you've suddenly got them on your mind alot
Phoemeister: LOL..... yeah :P
Phoemeister: I confess to that :P
Talia: I've always done that hehe been somewhat fickle with my crushes
Talia: or had two crushes at once, just to keep my options open
Phoemeister: It's weird. I'm fickle and loyal at the same time. Err... meaning sometimes I can be fickle, but other times I can have crushes for yeeeeears

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Well, I talked to the advisor, and I can get multi media aps. Though he won't guarantee me a spot. Gee, thanks.

He said that he was actually trying to steer people away from the Web class, because the prof teaching it next semester flat out expects you to know java. That pisses me off SO much. Not at the advisor, but at whatever prof that is. If there's no prereq, you shouldn't just expect people to know things. That's what annoyed me about making us do a unix prog in 169, and a huge annoyance in my hardware class where the guy expects us to know hardware already.

So, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that other course. I asked the prof if there were any other non-programming classes that might fulfill my requirements, and he's like, "welll... there's this one where the prof thinks you should be pretty good at internet stuff that you might qualify for." So... yeah. I'm going to investigate that. I'm no hacker, but I thiiink I know how to "use" the internet.

stupid school. And my nose is running like a faucet, and I'm feeling queasy in the stomach.




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And I swear, Wanda: I did not cheat to get this score. Though I probably would've if I hadn't gotten it honestly :P
Phoemeister: a bit AAAH feeling, because I still haven't been allowed to register for some ACS classes I absolutely need next semester
Wanda: How come you haven't been allowed to yet?
Wanda: (to register)
Phoemeister: I don't know. I scheduled an appointment with my advisor today so I can find out
Wanda: What, have you been to register and they just won't let you? Or is everyone else having this problem too?
Phoemeister: and if they're like, "it's cos you're flunking 169 (the class I'm not taking anymore but still shows up on my transcripts) I'm going to be like "It's fucking webdesign and multimedia aps. Wjhat the hell does C++ have to do with it? I WANT TO GRADUATE! GRRR!"
Phoemeister: They put you on a waiting list for classes (ACS does, com doesn't make me do this. ACS is stupid bastards) and then notify you when you can sign up. Well, next week is the last week before finals, and I pretty well need to be registered by then.
Wanda: Eeeejits.
Wanda: And I hope you do actually go "grrr"
Phoemeister: Yeah. I just thought of it now. I was like, "and if yelling doesn't work, i want to growl like an animal."

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Phoemeister: Have you ever had one of those pre-made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
Sarcasmyst: *shudder* no
Sarcasmyst: are they scary?
Phoemeister: Nah. They're fine. I'm having my very first right now. Which is why I brought it up. Anyway, I bought it because I was like, "I remember bringing pbj sandwiches to school when I was little, and the jelly soaked thru the bread in like 2 hours. How can these not be soaked thru? This must be some space age bread or jelly, man!"
Sarcasmyst: *laughs* The bread is secretly plastic.
Phoemeister: Anyway, I'm eating it and I noticed: there are 2 thin layers of P in which the J is safely ensconced, insulating the bread. I was like, "My god! That's genius! I would've never thought of that in a million years!" Anyway, I'm not thinking I'm going to make this a trend, because how lazy are you if you can't make your own PBJ sandwich. People are SO lazy. I mean, me too. But I'm going to make my own PBJ sandwiches.
Sarcasmyst: *laughs*
Sarcasmyst: I'm so jealous...
Sarcasmyst: I TOTALLY am craving PBJ now.
Sarcasmyst: Evil person
Phoemeister: sorry
Sarcasmyst: You are so not. :P
Phoemeister: I just had to share with you the genius of Smuckers
Phoemeister: LOL
Phoemeister: I guess not :P
Sarcasmyst7: *laughs* wahhhh
Phoemeister: Also funny: on the package it says "Gingham pattern is a trademark of the J.M. Smucker Company."

How can Smuckers own a copyright on Gingham?
Phoemeister: If I wear a gingham dress, are they going to sue me?
Sarcasmyst: lol
Sarcasmyst: Maybe just when it's jam related?
Sarcasmyst: *laughs* so nobody else can make jam in jars that look JUST LIKE THEIRS, eek eek
Sarcasmyst: might be FAKE Smuckers
Phoemeister: Not..... *organ music* FAKE SMUCKERS!
Sarcasmyst: Bum bum BUMMMMMMM.... Oh yes!
Phoemeister: *swoons*
Phoemeister: They should make a horror movie about fake smuckers
Sarcasmyst: *laughs* taking over the world?
Sarcasmyst: sounds like type of squid
Phoemeister: LOL
Phoemeister: Well that squid better not be wearing the gingham pattern, or Smuckers(TM) is going to come down on it like a hurricane!
I'm feeling lonely today. I mean, I feel lonely most days. That's why I go home every weekend, despite how lame it is and how I wanted to live in the dorms instead of home in the first place.

It's just that, I've only talked to 2 people all day. And it was briefly, about schoolwork, to a couple of profs. I haven't talked to anyone online, even. Which I admit is sadly probably my main means of social interaction. I just feel especially lonely today. And have a splitting headache.

Oh, good news, though--this weekend I'm going out to dinner with Igraine and the prof from the trip. Actually, Igraine and I went out to dinner with a couple of people from the trip the week before (I forgot to blog it, maybe because I was trying to forget how I fell down in the middle of the restaurant when I was on the way out), and we wanted the prof to come, but he couldn't because he had kidney stones (yes, not only am I blogging my embarrassing bodily functions these days, I'm blogging the embarrassing bodily functions of others). He's a really cool guy, actually. I had issues with grading/teaching methods when I was taking the course, but as a person he's awesome.

I mean, yesterday when we were talking on the phone about when to meet, we ended up getting in an intellectual conver about left brain v right brain. You can't do that with just anyone.
Today I am downloading "Saw Tupac At McDonalds" by Matt's Dad's Basement, so I can satisfy my curiosity about the legions of MDB fans that come to this website looking for it. Yesterday, or the day before, maybe, I downloaded 4 different versions of "The Mighty Quinn." (apparentlly it's been sung by Bob Dylan, The Hollies, Manfred Mann, and the group I was originally looking for, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap). I LOVE the internet.

Anyway, I tried the whole MDB thing eons ago, but couldn't find it. Now I have, but it's hella slow, so I only have like, 1% right now or something.

I'm tired.
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Backstabbing: 8
Dodgin': 10
Guts: 3
Magic Mojo: 9
Smackdown: 5

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Evidence of my growing madness: in the absence of paper, I have begun writing not only on my hands, but on my feet. Yes, my feet.

Right now my right foot says:

Sun
CJ's
old hojo
along beltway

and the left says:

crack
12:15

Those notes seem to indicate that I'm the most twisted crack dealer ever.

But I'd say I'm one of the least twisted crack dealers around here, really.
So my TV prod prof puts meaningless trivia questions at the end of his tests for extra credit, right? I mean, I don't mind, because I get them right, so woohoo for me, but it kinda sux to be you if you don't happen to know anything about the moon landing.

Last test, one of the questions was what Istanbul was called before it was called Istanbul. I dutifully wrote down Constantinople. I also really wanted to add in "Byzantium," another previous name for Istanbul, but didn't want to show off.

So I overhear this guy sitting near me say to the prof afterwards, "Did you know it was called Byzantium before Constantinople?"

So of course, to get my two cents in, I'm like, "Actually, I thought it was byzantium in between the time it was Constantinople and when it was Istanbul."

So he explains to me the exact reasons why it was Byzantium before Constantinople.

I fell in love.
You know, I've gotten into several debates with people lately. Political, scientific.... I do it all!

Anyway, I've noticed that I call the person I'm arguing with "Dude." All the time. What is up with that?

Monday, April 21, 2003

Phoe ~ I like my sugar sweet says:
I'm thinking of changing my MSN name to "I think that hunger, war, and death are bringing everybody down." It'll be the next in a series of MSN names that are "highly obvious statements."
Kevin says:
ah
Phoe ~ I like my sugar sweet says:
waht do you think?

long pause

Phoe ~ I like my sugar sweet says:
do you know that the term for potato in french (pomme de terre) means "apple of the earth"?
Kevin says:
I think that I still would like to be in a menage a trois with mila kunis and shannyn sossamon
Phoe ~ I like my sugar sweet says:
That should be your MSN name


Honestly. Out of NOWHERE. And the boy wonders why he doesn't have a girlfriend.

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Sister: *points at my flip-flops* Aren't your feet cold?
Me: No. Isn't your...... head cold?
Brother-In-Law: Do your feet have as much hair on them as we have on our heads?
Me: Uh....yes.
Brother-In-Law: Alright, Frodo.

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Dude, I've seriously been dissed by Alleywriter for posting a link to that comic. He all says:

It's very sad when someone I've always liked and respected starts using their site to support the craziest, most paranoid and most hateful aspects and pundits of the Left.

Here's what I said to him:

Oh come on. It's a comic man. And it IS true. There ARE people who wave a flag around with no thought in their head whatsoever, and follow Dubya unquestioningly. I like you despite disagreeing with a lot of your political views since ALWAYS, and now I show the slightest bit of mine by linking to a comic I find personally amusing, I'm all the enemy? That's cold, man.

And, he friggin' illustrates the third panel of the very comic he thinks is so wrong: "and almost always include a pronounced aversion to differing points of view."

Or if his gripe was the "terror alert" thing I have on the left, come on! "This is what happens to little girls who chew too much gum" is funny no matter what your political views are.

Friday, April 18, 2003

LOL. It's funny because it's so sadly true :P
I'm feeling loved tonight. Though I somewhat suspect that a couple of these are sarcastic:

Just a fucking glutton for punishment... says:
And you are stunning. Absolutely a lovely person.
Phoe ~ For your abuse but not intended for internal use says:
Awww, thanks

Phoemeister: I'm absolutely a lovely person
Kin: I know you are.
Phoemeister: awwwww!

Ryan says:
so, how's my favorite Phoe in the world?
Phoe ~ For your abuse but not intended for internal use says:
awwww. That's the second time this week I've been told I'm "the good --my real name--"

Thursday, April 17, 2003

Wanda Conver II (same disclaimer from before applies)

Phoemeister: most are, anyroad
Phoemeister: anyroad's english. I totally said something englishy
Wanda: Lol - go you!! I love that you're so English-worshipping.
Wanda: It's as if the Boston Tea Party never happened!
Phoemeister: ROFLMAO
Phoemeister: I have to post that one too now
Wanda: Yay. I'm so proud.
Phoemeister: you should be.
Wanda: Pride really _is_ me sin. It's so British.
Phoemeister: LOL
Wanda: Me = my
Phoemeister: Then I love it! :P
Wanda: Although, saying "is me sin" makes me sound all faux-cockney ala Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Phoemeister: ROFLMAO
Phoemeister: I love it!
Phoemeister: I love Dick van Dyke
Phoemeister: expecially faux cockney dick van dyke
Wanda: I know. He makes Diagnosis Murder!
Phoemeister: If there's anything on earth better than faux cockney dick van dyke, I don't want to know!
Wanda: I LOVE that programme. It's so cheesy it actually rocks.
Wanda: I don't think it's possible!
Phoemeister: True. Faux crime solving doctor Dick van Dyke is almost as good as faux cockney Dick van Dyke
Wanda: ESPECIALLY as his son in the show is his son IRL... and in some episodes they have other members of the van Dyke clan!
Phoemeister: wow, I didn't even know that
Wanda: It's like they're trying to take over the planet... hold on... you don't htink they are, do you?
Wanda: His grandchildren (I presume - they look about that age) are very blonde-haired, blue-eyed aryan types...
Phoemeister: ROFLMAO
Phoemeister: that wily dick van dyke
Phoemeister: I'm aryan, I could probably be one of his storm troopers
Phoemeister: too bad for YOU, though
Wanda: Yeah - it's totally the truth... and the funniest thing about that is that they guest in a lot of episodes but every time THEY PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE... without even ATTEMPTING to change their appearances (the two older guys sometimes have comedy faux facial hair)
Phoemeister: ROFLMAO
Phoemeister: that
Phoemeister: s the BEST
Wanda: It's hilarious. Especially as they're on 2 channels so you might see them in the wrong order, so you end up seeing two episodes together with the kids (about 13) and you're all "But... isn't she his friend's adopted daughter?"....
This kind of drags on for anyone who's not me or Wanda, but I was too lazy to go thru and cut out the unfunny parts while trying to keep the general thing coherant.

Wanda: Yeah, that's a good point... I've found a catalogue/website that specialise in my sorta size bras. Thing is, they migth be pretty colours and lacy, but they're still HUGE... more like a Victorian governess' outfit than an item of underwear.
Phoemeister: LOL... aw, that's crappy
Phoemeister: I figure I'm not going to get my first date until I'm thirty, and then I'm going to blow it by freaking out, and then not get another one until I'm all old, but by then I'll be all hot because I'll have all my own teeth still because of the braces my mom made me get
Wanda: LOL - you won't...
Phoemeister: have my teeth still? ARGH. Take away all my hope, why don't you?
Wanda: You lucky B-size bastards - you don't even HAVE to wear bras all the time!
Phoemeister: lol
Wanda: Ha ha :oP YOu know I meant you won't have your first date at 30... it'll be waaaaay before then :oP
Phoemeister: I do pretty much. Sometimes even when I sleep, because I forget it's on. It really is quite comfortable
Phoemeister: awww, thanks
Wanda: I sometimes wear a little crop top thing (not underwired, all lycra & elastic type thing) in bed... v comfortable.
Phoemeister: yeah. Elastic is nice. Though I do admit it doesn't give the most support. I probably will be all saggy when I'm old. It'll probably ruin my "good teeth" atvantage
Wanda: Lol - nah... B isn't really an uber-sag-size.
Phoemeister: true. Good teeth still save the day!
Phoemeister: Though actually I think my teeth are moving back to my pre-braces positions. Which annoys me, because braces hurt a lot, and it'll be for nothing now
Wanda: Now... E size - the bastards - are ALREADY. That's prolly the biggest thing I hate about my body. And the most scary thing about even the THOUGHT of getting nekkid with a guy.
Wanda: Wellt hat sucks.
Phoemeister: aww :-(
Wanda: You should hunt down the dentist.
Phoemeister: Yeah. He totally looked just like Bill Clinton. I should've known he wasn't on the level :P
Wanda: Yeah... 19 year old , curly hair, large eyes, saggy boobs... good combo.
Phoemeister: dude, there's totally a website called DoYouHaveHeartburn.com
Wanda: LOL
Wanda: If he looked like Clinton you're lucky you got away with nothing more than teetht hat reposition themselves after a few years!
Phoemeister: dude, you look fine. I wouldn't know about your boobs, but I suspect they look better than you say, because the rest of you looks better than you say
Phoemeister: ROFLMAO. True
Wanda: Damnit - we both know you looked plenty!!
Wanda: But thanks, missy *sniffle*
Phoemeister: LOL
Phoemeister: yeah. I did. But I thought it'd be well, wrong, to rub it in your face.
Wanda: And I know it must be tough for you now that you're so far away from my stunning beauty *cough*
Phoemeister: Yeah. I'm wasting away. Even my teeth.
Phoemeister: they're all yellow and stuff
Wanda: No way!!
Wanda: You should find that damn Clinton-look-a-like!
Phoemeister: lol, that's not his fault, really. He was an orthodontist. My regular dentist must pay, though :P
Phoemeister: They're not that yellow. They're just not that white either :P
Wanda: Mine either. I don't think anyone (other than people wth too much money to burn and a penchant for bleach) has _white_ teeth. They look unnatural... and I'll never forget that episode of Friends where Ross has his teeth whitened and they GLOW and then he goes on the date with a girl who has a UV light in her apartment.
Phoemeister: roflmao. Yeah, I agree
Phoemeister: I had a friend who had really white teeth and I got a complex about it, but really my teeth aren't that bad colorwise
Phoemeister: and I've never had a cavity :P
Wanda: Lucky you.
Phoemeister: No, it was hard work and dedication!

Yeah, lucky :P
Phoemeister: I never floss, and I only brush like, once a day, usually
Wanda: Damn you.
Wanda: I brush twice a day and my teeth are crap.
Phoemeister: I'm totally going to mac on all the guys in the old folks home
Wanda: Don't floss though... bleeding gums, mmmmm
Wanda: LOL - you ARE.
Phoemeister: awww. I think sometimes it just depends on the teeth you get hereditary-like
Phoemeister: :P Thanks for the confidence
Phoemeister: Yeah, it makes me bleed too. And I'm lazy
Wanda: Lol, yeah, that too!
Wanda: Speaking of laziness... leg-shaving!! Bleh.
Phoemeister: oh, totally
Phoemeister: last year I decided I was going to quit for good. Not that I did it that often anyway
Wanda: I'm of the shave when I'm going o wear a skirt/dress/shorts school of leg-epilation. And sometimes in between just so they don't get too yeti-like


this made me laugh my "azz" off. I love it when spammers get creative.
Gah... where do I start about today?

Well, a good lot of it I spent doing nothing. Because I don't have any class till 6:30 (and I'm skipping it today anyway), and didn't wake up until fairly late.

But my radio group and I met at about 1:30. On the way there, I had a dizzy spell. I couldn't even stay standing up. I had to kneel on the sidewalk in front of Hamilton. After a few seconds of this, a really nice girl came along and asked me what was wrong, and I told her, and she insisted on helping me back to my dorm. I kept saying inane things like, "Really, this never happens to me." Which, why would you say that? If anything, you'd probably want to reasure the worried bystander that it DOES happen to you all the time, and you'll be fine. Don't feel bad, kind worried bystander.

But really what I was thinking about the whole time is, "Oh great. Another act to add to the circus of my health problems. Is this going to be an ongoing thing for me? In addition to the daily diahrea, sporadic throwing up, and frequent headaches, I'm going to start collapsing on sidewalks and having worried bystanders bus me back and forth to my dorm?" Hopefully, it won't be an ongoing thing.....

And weirdly, about 30 seconds after she got me back to my dorm, I felt fine. I totally went back to where I was going before the dizzyness happened. Though I did allow a little lead time so that the helpful bystander wouldn't see me walking around and think I was messing with her mind. And I've been fine ever since....

For the last couple hours between then and now my group and I worked on our radio project. It was.... interesting to say the least. But fun. It was just a little weird standing in the middle of the Radio office shouting, "DON'T HURT ME! NO, NOT THE FACE!" at the top of my lungs into a phone reciever. B-Dawg probably got more attention though. His line to shout into the phone was, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL," like from a spanish soccer game.

The most unpleasant voice I had to do, probably, was this wrong number lady who kept calling for a guy named Phil. Not so much unpleasant doing it, but hearing it again over and over during editting. Because I take my already nasal voice and nasal it up even more, and make it more high pitched. I swear, Phil-lady's going to haunt my nightmares. She's going to hunt me down, going, "Is Phil there? Is Phil there? Phil? But who's going to drive me to bingo?" And I'll sob, "make it stop! make it stop!" Or something like that.

Good times.

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

More hastily pharaphrased home movies quotes. (A lot of Coach McGuirk's comments on this episode had to do with him thinking Brendan has a drug problem)

Brendan's Mom: Oatmeal contains oatmeal!

Brendan: Yeah! I have not brushed my teeth in four months

Brendan: I have to have a talk with Jason. A long talk. Which will be hard, because he's got a short attention span

Coach McGuirk: Denial is the first sign of your problem
Brendan: Denial is a sign I don't have a problem. I don't have a problem, so I'm denying it.
Coach McGuirk: you can't fool me with your logic!

Brendan: *points at styrofoam cup in Coach McGuirk's hand* you want me to pee in that? right here, right now?
Coach McGuirk: no, I'm going to finish my coffee first

Brendan's Mom: I'm not comfortable with embellishing like that
Melissa's Dad: well, then just lie
I just saw an ad for new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures.

Can I just say that "Turtle-ize" is the BEST adjective EVER?

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

gah... a whole long post deleted because I started trying to clean the keys on my keyboard mid-post using a sophisticated technique I call "scratching the crud off of them with my fingernails." Fear not, I have no life and will retype.

I got back my H & S paper tonight. I swear on all things good and holy that the comment on the top of the paper was, "This paper is great, but what did you write?" How insulting does that sound? Is it accusing me of plagiarism? What's going on there?

Anyway, I asked him about it in class, much to the merriment of my classmates. I swear, I score more funny points off of that professor than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Mumbler. Anyway, he told me it was because I had so many citations in it. I told him I was from the "English Class" school of citation, where you cite everything you even remotely, possibly used. Which, I did have to use a lot because it's not as if I knew anything about Quantum Computing (paper topic) on my own before this. Anyway, he must not've minded too much, because I got an A. Which should bump me up to a C in the class, which then I won't have to take it over again, which makes me very, very happy.

Speaking of strange people (hey, I was talking about the weird prof at one point in my pointless babble), the one black chick who said I need my own show came up to me in the hallway out of nowhere yesterday.

BCWSINMOS: What's your name?
Me: huh?
BCWSINMOS: I asked what your name was.
Me: Uh... Phoe (okay, I gave her my real name, but I've decided to stop posting it on this site)
BCWSINMOS: Cool. I just wanted to know, because I saw you in the hall and I was like, "I don't think I know her name."
Me: errr... alright...
BCWSINMOS: I'm serious about you needing your own show
Me: uh... thanks
BCWSINMOS: No, really I am. I should propose it to NBC.
Me: Err... alright. I have to go now. Bye.
BCWSINMOS: Bye

So.... if you see a sitcom come on someday that somewhat resembles this blog, notify me so I can sue her for royalties money.

I also have some quotes from Home Movies I wanted to jot down. A lot of them are kind of hastily paraphrased because I had to try to get them down quick.


Brendan: Fate is a cruel snake with bitter herbs and spices

Brendan: We shall have to continue this fight without weapons
Jason: a battle of wits?
Brendan: no......jazz!
*jazz scatting battle ensues*

Brendan: it's horrible
Melissa: I think it's alternative
Jason: it's an alternative to good

Brendan: I don't think I can go to cancun
Coach McGuirk: We're on friendly terms with mexico, brendan
Brendan: but..
Coach McGuirk: They let us in. They let us in the country.
Brendan: I don't think my mom will let me go to mexico with my soccer coach

Oh, and for anyone who's like, "What the hell is this "Home Movies" she keeps blathering on about?" there's a clip of it here
My everclear e-mail is down right now, for those who've tried to talk to me/donate oral recently. Maybe permanently. Which kind of bugs me, because I was hoarding oral sex there, as sick as that sounds :P
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
Yeah, we'd totally have to go to Chicago!
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
"When I think of chicago, i think of gangsters. Because of all the movies. And you americans have all those slasher movies too. You should stop that. People will start thinking that's how America really is"
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
lol... you mean it isn't?!
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
ha ha
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
that was supposed to be that guy that accosted us on the bus when I was over there
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
but yeah, I've hacked my way thru several victims
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
Phew! I was almost disappointed.
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
yeah. When you visit, I'll hold a couple down for you
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
Yay!!!!!!!!! My first victims!
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
LOL
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
I'll take lots of photos for you, so you can remember
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
keep them away from the cops tho
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
LOL - ok! I'll try to remember not to make a t-shirt of one of the pics.
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
LOL... Yeah, it's a pity. I totally wish I had a T shirt with my first victims on it
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
Don't we all?!
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
lol
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
yeah. I do have my first mugging victims on a T shirt
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
because you can't tell I'm mugging them in the picture
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and people are like, "hey, who's that guy on your T shirt?"
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and I'm like, "are you a pig, yo?"
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and they're like, "no."
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and I'm like, "He's my first mugging victim."
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and they're like, "Okay."
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
true story
Wanda ~ What if you had the world in your arms tonight? says:
ROLMFAO
Well, funny thing--

we got done with TV early, so I didn't have to show up there in my PJ's.

It was a fun class, anyway. I filmed Jeff and Don making a drug deal in broad daylight in front of Cook hall, and then editted it together. I LOVE how they act on film, so I don't have to, and I also get to do a lot of production that way, but I'm beginning to feel like my life is now dedicated to documenting "The Wacky Adventures of Don N' Jeff."

To recap: girl in PJ's filming a drug deal in broad daylight in front of a fake castle. Good stuff.
Like always, I just almost missed TV lab. Why does it it have to be at 8:00? Thank you, construction, or whatever the hell loud noise it was that woke me up in time.

It didn't help either that I stayed up late last night. I am now quaffing caffiene to try to fix things. Though I'm not sure that helps. People act like it helps, and maybe it helps me but I just don't notice, but caffiene just doesn't seem to make me more wakeful. I frequently buy into the myth anyway, though.

And I'm going to class in my pajamas, of all things. I have to give a presentation in radio prod lab (right after TV lab) where I'm "dreaming of the perfect radio station." Which, it's kind of embarassing to lay down and pretend to be sleeping in front of class, but its better than having to give the presentation, I surmised, so I actually chose to do this.

And, as you can see, the construction woke me up early enough that I have plenty of time to blog. Ain't life wonderful?

Monday, April 14, 2003

Life Is The Cancer...Words Are The Placebo says:
I feel so old and withered.
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
I feel..... rich and flavorful
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
and kind of gassy
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
God, I'm such a dork I want to kill myself. Some show on tv mentioned San Dimas and I was like, "Oh my gosh! That's where Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was set."
Life Is The Cancer...Words Are The Placebo says:
That's pretty sad.
Phoe ~ My life, my love, and my lady is the sea says:
You're sposed to lie and make me feel better
Life Is The Cancer...Words Are The Placebo says:
Oh...right.
Life Is The Cancer...Words Are The Placebo says:
You're not a dork.
Phoemeister: I'm also thinking of a section for conversations, because I end up posting so many on my blog
Wanda: lol, you do...
Phoemeister: Yeah. I try to steal all of you guys' cleverness and pass it off as my own :P
Wanda: I know... but who can blame you?
Phoemeister: lol, yeah
Wanda: You should blog THAT :oP
Phoemeister: I should blog my AIM conversation about how I blog AIM conversations? I think I've done that before
Wanda: Then it can't hurt to do it again. Plus I made with the funnies.
Phoemeister: true, true. I am nothing if I'm not repetative
Wanda: Nothing wrong with repetative.
Wanda: Nothing wrong with repetative.
Wanda: Da DUM!
Phoemeister: you dumbarse
Wanda: I know. Couldn't help myself.
Wanda: Believe me, I'm suitably ashamed.
Phoemeister: okay
Phoemeister: as long as you're suitably ashamed
New update to Correspondence
I love English people:

Phoemeister: but.... yeah, I'd say I'm alright :P
Phoemeister: except for the usual stomach problems, and dropping out of one of my ACS courses and having to take it again sometime
Wanda: You'll still have to take it again??
Wanda: Why?
Phoemeister: because I have to get a C in it to graduate
Phoemeister: it's a required course
Phoemeister: (for my minor. Which I don't want to change, because I want to graduate already)
Wanda: Can't you change your minor?
Wanda: Ah, I see.
Wanda: Well arses.
Phoemeister: yeah :P
Phoemeister: That's pretty much how I felt

How evil are you?
Harry Potter is Satan

OR

Why I'm So Obsessed About Why I Don't Like Harry Potter That I'll Spend Hours on 3 Different Conversations About It, Wasting Time I Need For A Project I'm Working On

Phoemeister: Hmm... You like harry potter? Could you tell me what the big deal is, anyway?
Phoemeister: Like, why people all love it so much?
Phoemeister: It's not that great
Talia: I like it cause it's simply written but a very differant story and twists... she's a good writer
Phoemeister: She's an alright writer. She is not as good as they make her out to be. And, while the books are about decent, the movies (err, the first movie, anyway) is less so
Phoemeister: There's so many huge frickin' plot holes it makes me want to gag. Even in the books
Talia: I haven't noticed any plot holes... the movies have them because they cut things, but the books I know better
Phoemeister: The books do too. Like quidditch is really moronic. Yes, I know in like, the 3rd book the stupid quaffle made a difference, but really, it doesn't. What the hell do they even bother with the quaffle with? It's all about that stupid snitch.
Phoemeister: I can't remember all the rest. It's been a long time since I read them all, and I've only seen the first movie a couple times
Talia: that's not a plot hole it's just about the game... I mean it wouldn't be any fun if every body on the field was chasing the snitch.. with two teams the game wouldn't last long enough to be fun or dangerous
Phoemeister: Yeah. Well i think the whole snitch thing is stupid. The quaffle and stuff is ALL like a regular sport, and make sence, but then you throw in the stupid snitch that's like, "I'm like the cheatin' way to win."
Phoemeister: A real sport should only have one way to win, not 2
Phoemeister: Oh, and I hate how Dumbledore's all partial to the one house over slytherin, and always finds a way to make them win the house cup, and announces it at the last minute just to make them feel horrible about themselves. That is not how an actual principle would or should act
Talia: catching the snitch IS the only one way to end the game, not win... if you've got over 100+ points and the other team catches the snitch, you might still win... catching the snitch ends the game and gives the catching team 100 points... it's the 100 points that usually wins the game, but not always
Talia: Gryffindor doesn't always win the house cup in the books... they loose it one year

Phoemeister: yes, but most of the fricken time, it IS how they win. It's lame
Phoemeister: Okay, I forgot. One year. Anyway, it IS mean to announce it at the last minute. And he DOES contrive ways to make them win
Phoemeister: And I hate how people like it better than narnia, because narnia kicks it's ass. And I know it's stupid to get upset like that, it's like being one of those moronic people that are all like, "Star trek is way better than star wars because...." or vice versa and write long diatribes about it, but I really do feel like that
Talia: well it IS his house, and Slyterins cheat to get their house points... like Snape always awarding them twice the points for things they do

Phoemeister: See, snape would be fired too, if it were a real school
Phoemeister: You can't just fuck around with little kids heads like that
Talia: it's not a real school, it's a wizard school just as Narnia can have a talking lion be king, wizard schools are going to be differant

Phoemeister: Dude, I'm not critisizing that they have magic, and can turn into things. You shouldn't critisize that Aslan talks. It's not the same thing.

Wizard schools aren't different. They have to buy books, they have grades, they're little kids, it's an actual school, but they teach magic. If I were a parent sending my kid to that school, I would write angry letters to the Wizard Superintendant or whoever to get Snape and Dumbledore fired. Oh, and Hagrid. Hagrid's such an ass, I just hate the character on general principle
Phoemeister: He always screws things up and people all love him anyway.
Phoemeister: And he's not particularly loveable to make up for it
Talia: I wasn't critizing Aslan talking, I was pointing out it's fantasy they both are so there is room for things to be differant.... Dumbledore is the greatest wizard alive so no one has any problems with him teaching their kids cause their hoping he'll make them even half as good as he is

Phoemeister: Yeah, that's another thing. If dumbledore's such a great wizard, what is he doing being principle of some school? He's not a teacher, so he's not actually teaching, so it's not doign the kids any good, and he's not out wizarding, so he's not doing the world in general any good
Talia: he was a teacher there though

Phoemeister: no he isn't
Phoemeister: he's principle
Phoemeister: he doesn't teach anything
Phoemeister: he's administrating
Phoemeister: but he's absentminded enough, i can't see how great he'd be at that
Talia: but he WAS.. I believe he was the defense against the dark arts teacher when he was teaching

Phoemeister: Yeah, but he's not now
Phoemeister: he hasn't in any of the books
Talia: he also works with the ministry of magic, they just never show directly in the books what he does... they call him there all the time though
Phoemeister: what he does for the ministry of magic is keep Voldemort down. Why the hell does he need to be principle to do that? I mean, it involves watching harry, but it looks like he does a pretty damn crappy job of looking over harry anyway, seeing as how many million times harry has almost gotten killed and him and his friends all "solve" it
Talia: because when it comes to things VOldemort does, Harry is the only person who really has a chance of stopping him
Phoemeister: Which, that's another plot hole, I forgot. They're 1st year magicians, but they can solve all the stupid tests to pass in the first book to get to that stone? Yeah, right. That's like a first grader solving a complicated physics equation
Phoemeister:

Dude, harry doesn't have a chance. Or shouldn't anyway. Yes, he has a chance of not getting killed, because he did it as a baby. But he really doesn't know that much magic, and voldemort's the most powerful around. He do
Talia: the movie made those scense more kitsy...

Phoemeister: Or else they did a pretty damn shabby job of protecting the stone
Phoemeister: Yeah, but they still solved them pretty easy in the book. Like, anyone who's good at chess could get in? Whatever
Phoemeister: Voldemort has all this experience, and harry's all just letting things happen to him. If Voldemort would just get a damn gun and kill him normally, Harry would've been dead a long time ago
Talia: I tihnk most people like the stories so much because it's kinda cool to think that there could be this magic society living in the same world, but no one would ever notice and that anyone could find out they belong to it ... or something like that

Phoemeister: Yeah. It's called Narnia, and it's been done, and done better
Phoemeister: It's also called A Wrinkle in Time
Phoemeister: or So You Want To Be A Wizard
Phoemeister: I know tons of books that do it better
Phoemeister: that concept, I mean
Talia: Diane Duane's (So You Want To Be A Wizard) is good, but I didn't like any of the others

Phoemeister: Why not?
Talia: just don't like the style of writing.. I hate feeling like I'm banging my head against the wall to get to the end

Phoemeister: what do you mean they made you feel like you were banging your head against the wall?
Talia: dunno, when I read those books it was like swimming thru mud I didn't like them

Phoemeister: what do you mean swimming through mud?
Phoemeister: Was it like Tolkien, with too much description?
GOWALLSGO: that's the best metaphor I can come up with at this time of night
Phoemeister: You are not helping one bit
Phoemeister: It's easy. "It was like mud, because the pace was really slow. You have to endure 3 pages of what every damn dwarf was doing. And I know gandalf's supposed to be cryptic, but he's really stupid. Just say it already, man. And who cares that much about the scenery."
Phoemeister: If you don't tell me why it's like mud, Narnia gets complete Sovreignty over stupid harry potter
Talia: food... I bloody well got tired of the little hairy bastards eatting in Tolkien
Phoemeister: Dude, I totally did too
Phoemeister: that's sort of what I meant about the dwarfs. In the hobbit, there's a whole feast and you hear what every one of them is eating, and you're like "whatever."
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Phoemeister: Narnia officially kicks HP's ass
Phoemeister: I win
Phoemeister: you lose
Talia: except for the fact that no one reads it anymore
Phoemeister: everyone reads Narnia
Phoemeister: narnia is AWESOME
Phoemeister: Narnia is my god
Phoemeister: I would give my left foot to write like CS Lewis


Phoemeister: Now we're arguing over whether they're even any good
Kin: Yes, it has. The movie you mean?
Phoemeister: Which I say no, (well.... I say it's decent, I don't know what the fuss is for, especially with grown ups) and she says yes
Phoemeister: of course the movie
Kin: I think the movies are okay. The books are good.
Phoemeister: that's what I said. Only I slightly sound like they're a bit crappier because I'm bitter about people loving them so much
K: Yeah. I do quite enjoy the books though
Phoemeister: Eh... See, I think the books are alright, but I still don't see what the big fuss is. And I hate how people like it better than narnia, because narnia kicks it's ass. And I know it's stupid to get upset like that, it's like being one of those moronic people that are all like, "Star trek is way better than star wars because...." or vice versa and write long diatribes about it, but I really do feel like that
Kin: Yeah. Oh I agree, Narnia so kicks Harry Potter's ass.
Phoemeister: Thank you
Phoemeister: I can take anyone loving harry potter as long as they admit that narnia kicks it's ass
Kin: I don't rank it on the same level as Narnia or the Wrinkle in Time series. They're all good, but in different ways.
Phoemeister: Oh, wrinkle in time. I forgot how awesome those are
Phoemeister: I dunno. maybe it's not growing up with them. But they just seem.. shallower, somehow
Kin: Yeah. Narnia and Wrinkle in time have, you know, subplots and stuff. =P
Kin1: I mean, it's more than just one thing going on at once.
Phoemeister: Yes. Yes they do. Stupid harry potter. Not having subplots
Phoemeister: yeah
Phoemeister: And they manage to do it a lot less longwindedly. They pack in all these subplots in the same or less space as the one long story in a harry potter book, especially the later in the series the harry potter books get
Kin: Harry Potter is entertaining but a little cut and dry, you know? Like, there it is, and that's it.
Phoemeister: Yeah. That's how I feel about it
Phoemeister: too
Phoemeister: dude, I'm exactly the type of person I hate
Kin: How so?
Phoemeister: I'm totally arguing tooth and nail to Tina about why Harry Potter sucks, and I'm bringing up the tinyest things. And I don't even think it sucks. I just want to make her admit it's not like, the best thing ever :P And that the people don't act like real people
Kin: Ah. Well, especiall in the movies.
Phoemeister: yeah, I admit the movies were worse than the book
Kin: I think Hermione was the worst really. Like she had really weird pauses in her speech that were really unnatural sounding.
Phoemeister: lol
Phoemeister: I didn't really notice.

Phoemeister: well, besides religious people?
Sarcasmyst: lol
Sarcasmyst: hmm
Sarcasmyst: I'm rather neutral
Sarcasmyst: though I think the writing is awful
Sarcasmyst: why?
Phoemeister: see! You think the writing is awful
Phoemeister: Well I hate them so much because I kind of don't like them, but then people love them. I always doubly hate things I don't think should be loved that are loved a lot
Sarcasmyst: ahhh
Phoemeister: the people don't act like real people should
Sarcasmyst: Yeah, really
Phoemeister: and someone's all like, "It's fantasy." And i"m like, just because they know magic doesn't mean they're not people
Sarcasmyst: *nods* I agree
Phoemeister: thank you
Phoemeister: I love it when people agree with me
Sarcasmyst: lol
Phoemeister: I do. It's probably one of my worst faults. I can't stand it when people dont' agree with me
Sarcasmyst: It used to bug me immensely, too.
Sarcasmyst: But I have had to give it up. *grins* Though I am willing to argue very much first.
Phoemeister: yeah

The odd thing is, though I've argued up and down about reasons I don't like it, the real reason is probably because HP reminds me of Sib, (she was way into it), and I miss her.

Sunday, April 13, 2003

I scored a 50% on the "How Iowegian are you?" Quizie! What about you?

Especially freaky because I literally AM 50% Iowegian (my father being 100% Iowegian). The real reason, though, is Illinois is just as hickville as Iowa if you aren't living in Chicago.

Friday, April 11, 2003



You are a phoenix.

What legend are you?. Take the Legendary Being Quiz by Paradox


"The phoenix was known to both the Russians and the Native Americans. This legendary creature of flame was said to live for thousands of years, and then die in an explosion of flame. When the fire dissipated, the bird would be reborn from it's own ashes."

What were they smoking? I've never heard of the Phoenix in relation to American OR Russian myth. It's famous as an Egyptian myth, that eventually filtered into some of the Greek and Roman stuff.

Thursday, April 10, 2003

Here's some quotes from Home Movies I wanted to post so I could remember them later (yes, I know I'm a total geek).


Thackery: Tomorrow, I'm going to beat the pants off of you Small!
Small: Well then I guess I won't bother wearing any.

Coach McGuirk: Hey pal, I don't bother you at your job
Brendan Small: but, I don't have a job..
McGuirk: I don't go down to the bus terminal and pee on the seats while you're trying to clean them.
Because you work there. Get it?
Small: what?

Brendan Small's Mom: What were you saying?
Brendan: This meatloaf is dry
Mom: Before that.
Brendan: This is meatloaf?
Mom: No, before that.
Brendan: This fish is dry.
Mom: Before that...

Coach McGuirk: I need a tag on the end. Something that says, "Here's the funny!"
I've put up a sort of sitemap. Not technically a site map, because it's several different sites. I'm the only thing that ties them together. Anyway, it's all the various blogs and pages I've put up, plus some new content/stuff I'd only previously posted on this blog.

The new content/only posted once stuff is mostly under the categories: Weird Phone Calls, Correspondence, and Schoolwork. Links also has a lot of new links. All quotes doesn't work because I haven't done it yet. Yep.
GAH! Blogger is down for one day, and I almost go crazy. I can't even remember what i was going to say yesterday, but it got me really pissed that I couldn't say it

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Gah! I can't even quit properly. I went to el classo diablo today by accident. When I got up this morning, I just went to it like I always do. My day to day life is pretty much run on autopilot, which is probably not the best way to live life, come to think of it.

Like, the first semester I went to ISU, I had to go to Stevenson a roundabout way, because of construction. Ever since then, I've been able to get there the direct way, but every once in awhile I just short-circuit and go the long route, for no discernable reason. So now I must harden my resolve to not go to el classo diablo, as weird as that seems.
I am #1 on alltheweb.com search for: Animals Getting It On

No, they're not "mating." They're "gettin' it oooooooooooon."

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Phoemeister: I'd like to shake the hand of the person who invented slow motion
Kin: ...In slow motion? =P
Phoemeister: LOL
Phoemeister: yes
Phoemeister: yes I would
Which OS are You?
Which OS are You?


I don't even know what that is :P
Well, a few hours ago on my parent's answering machine I mentioned how I was quitting. I didn't want to, but I know my mom would be even more pissy when I fail the class and she doesn't know why and I have to explain it to her later. And now my dad called me back to all be like, "Don't quit, because you have to take it again, and if you're failing it now, what makes you think you won't fail it later?" Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Oh well. At least it was better than talking to mom. I could here her all yelling at him to berate me in the background. What kills me is that though my dad is apologetic for persuading me to choose a minor that makes me want to kill myself, my mom still denys having any involvement, even though she actually tried to get me to MAJOR in it, which I would have to kill myself if I were an ACS major because it FUCKING SUCKS BECAUSE I SUCK AT IT AND HATE IT WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING.
Well, I decided to give up. Yeah, that's what I do best at. Anyway, I'm not going to C++ AKA 169 AKA "El Classo Diablo" anymore. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get the C I need, so I think I'm going to funnel the time and energy I'll save from not working at that class anymore into other classes, hopefully improving my grades in them to help soften the mortal blow ACS is inflicting on my GPA.

An unrelated note: Do you ever feel guilty when you get two things at a time from a vending machine? Especially when someone is behind you waiting to use it and witnessing it? I found myself getting one thing today, and then waiting and waiting and waiting and lurking and waiting for the other girl to go away so I could get a second thing and not look like a freak. I also got a drink, so that's like 3 vending machine items.

But speaking of looking like an ass: it was hilarious. I was sitting down in the hall, waiting for class to start, drinking my Dr. Pepper, eating my skittles, and listening to my headphones. When I tried to get up, I had the aforementioned items in my hands, plus my backpack and coat. And I have poor balance. Yes, you can see where this is going. I totally fell over while I was trying to get up. The hilarious part, though, is I fell so I was laying on my side, and I didn't spill hardly any of my pop. This guy who was going into the classroom looked back, and here I am laying around in the hallway holding out a bottle of Dr. Pepper like a total jackass. It was embarassing but amusing.

Speaking of looking like a jackass to members of my H&S class (Note to self: come up with more transitions not involving "looking like an ass"): I am the only one in the class who admits to not knowing computer hardware well. So today, the prof and this other guy in the class were explaining something, and they both looked DIRECTLY at me while they were doing it, and all asked if I understood afterwards. I didn't, but I said yes anyway. It is so freaking embarassing being singled out as the "slow child" just because I don't know what the hell an IDE cable is.

And I'm not dumb. Just different. I mean, I looked at EDO and didn't think, "Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory," I was thinking, "Hmm... Edo. That's what Tokyo was called before the Meji restoration." I mean, I could analyze the hell out of Edo. "Edo was a small village until the Tokugawa Shogunate started requiring all Daimyo (and in many cases, the Daimyo's court/followers came along for the ride) to live there for half a year every year (a full year every other year, for daimyo in more remote territories) to help prevent plotting." I could even go into more detail, and bore everyone to tears. And that's exactly how I feel when they go on and on about all this hardware crap. So yeah, I should've been a history minor, not an ACS minor. Stupid parents. Telling me I was good at computers, not realizing that I'm not, because I'm so good at computers in comparison to them. They wanted me to major in ACS. At least I dodged that bullet.

Grr, I can't believe I'm going to have to go thru 169 again. It sucks so much.
Oh wait. I'm NOT passing C++ right now. I'm getting a 65%. BLAHAHAHAAZHAJHARG!!!!!
I HATE C++. It is TOO HARD. At least the way the class I'm in is structured. We have a program due every two weeks, half of it due one week, the rest due the next week. So that means I'm fucking ALWAYS working on a C++ program. There is never a time I am not. Even if we have a test that week. Even if I have a test in another ACS class that week. Even if I have a test in that class, another test in another ACS class, and a program due in that other acs class due that week, as happened last week. This further pisses me off because the prof for my other ACS class, H&S KNOWS everyone in his class is in the fucking hard C++ class, and still pulls crap like that.

I'm barely holding onto a C right now. If I can't keep my C, I have to take this HORRIBLE HORRIBLE class over again. Which I DO NOT want. It is bringing down my GPA, takes up all my time, and is still HARD. The programs take forever, even if you know what your'e doing, because they're so long and complicated. My test grades were helping me keep my head above water, but I got a D on the last one.

But yet, I don't really want to work on the latest prog. There has only been one program so far that I've gotten a passing grade on in this class. I hate, hate, hate spending all my time on something that's only going to get me a D or F anyway. Bastard, bastard, bastard programs. I hate them so much. And this latest one is tinkering about with pre-written code. They say you have to do it to prepare for real world programing when that's what you'd spend most of your time doing. Well let me tell you, I will literally LIVE ON THE STREET before I take a job programming. If they'd have me. Which they wouldn't. Anyway, the point is: I suck even more at finding other people's mistakes than I do finding my own. I really don't want to spend hours and hours of looking at code today. Or tomorrow. Or at any point this week. Or any time for the rest of my life.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHDFGLKSRDFJGSOL:KJSD:FSDLK:FJJMSDLKISDOIKJHSFI:HASEDRFOIPEOIU:HGWEIORUO*IE(#W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like my group members in TV class. I really do. But sometimes I wonder if someone dropped them on the head when they're little.

We were linear editing today, which means we have 2 vcrs. One is the source, the other is what we're recording on. It took each of them 5 minutes to work on a single cut, which they still didn't get right. Though, that does include the sadly large time it took me to explain to them that you want the source tape after the part you want to cut out, and the record tape to stop before the next part you want to cut. Am I being arrogant calling them dumb? Is this not common sense?

Anyway, it took me about 5 minutes to dub the 2 or 3 other shots after that, and then go back and redo the whole tape again in order to go back fix what they'd messed up. So either I'm freakin' awesome or they're on the dumb side.

But, I was happy with the tape we made. Each of the groups had to record several shots that "told a story." I basically taped the guys fighting over pocket change. Not only was our tape the only one that actually told a story, but ours was the only footage shot in the correct filter, so we must do some things right. Though I think he was a little unhappy with our group because we forgot to rewind the tape after we gave it to him. He gave us this long lecture about how not cueing up tapes is "the cardinal sin of TV."

So I can't be too full of myself, because I'm the one who forgot to rewind the tape.

Monday, April 07, 2003

Whoops. I have a correction. I am beloved by: Gay Guys, Canadians, Pervs, Black Women, and Ax Murderers from Kentucky.

Well, the promised phone call from my mom did come. It went a little something like this:

"How's it going?"
"ACS is really hard. I got another test back, and I'm not sure I can pass the class."
"You should work harder."
"I DO try hard. I'm just bad at it. That's about the meanest thing you could've said. "You don't try!"
"I said work harder, not that you don't try."
"Big difference."
"Look, I didn't call you up to fight with you, I wanted to tell you how the funeral went."
"How'd it go?"
"It went fine."
"That's good."
"It's snowing here."
"Here too."
"Well it snowed a lot more here."
"Well you don't have to walk around in it."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Oh, I also have to give kind of a shout out to the reason I was complaining in the first place today. In Radio class they asked us if this semester we'd decided a) we REALLY want to go into radio because this semester has been so great or b) the whole thing had soured us on radio. All of these people started gushing about how they loved radio, but I raised my hand and was like, "Yeah, I've soured on radio."

And I have. First off, if you get a job, you're unlikely to get a job in music you like. I've had jobs where they've piped in music from stations I don't like before. It sucks ass. It's so repetative that by the third time in an hour you've heard, "What A Girl Wants," you want to drive to Christina Aguilara's house and strangle her with your bare hands. Even if you liked Christina in the first place. So any music station (due to repetativeness) is going to suck, even if it's music you like. Maybe talk is better.

Second of all, mass com is the worst major ever, because every day they somehow find a way to remind you that you're never in a million years going to get a job. The sad part is they're usually trying to be helpful and positive. They're like, "Weeelll.... it is hard to make it in radio, but you have a better chance if you are willing to move all over the country and try to make contacts when you're in college act perky when you get their coffee when you're an intern and stuff." That always makes me MORE depressed, because I don't want to move all over the country, I don't want to bother making friends with people I don't like just to further my career, and I'm not perky. When I mentioned not being perky, the prof was all, "You seem perky right now," and I wanted to be all like, "Yeah, well I'm complaining right now. That's pretty much my favorite thing to do. Of course I'm perky. Different story when I'm getting someone's coffee."

Also, I love radio class. We get to do a lot of fun, creative stuff. But I don't think any entry level actual job I'd be getting would be that creative. Since I don't want to be a DJ, I'd be in sales or promotions. Selling and writing ads for the local used car lot doesn't really ring any creative bells for me. Promotions would be fun, but probably wouldn't really go anywhere.

So yes, I'm going to focus more on TV. And no, I don't really expect to get a TV job either. But at least I won't have to listen to Christina Aguilara.
Black women think I'm hilarious when I'm complaining. I swear. I was just thinking about it today when I was complaining and this black woman told me I should get a sitcom. And this isn't the first time I've complained in front of black women and they've told me I need my own show. I complain about something, and black women really get a kick out of it. I'm not sure why. So now my fans are gay guys, pervs, black women, and canadians. What's that about? There must be some strange underlying connection between these groups, that ties them together, that makes them think I'm funny.

Anyway, I think I should use this influence to start my own gay, black, pervy, canadian world empire. Or get my own show on BET. Whatever.
Don't you hate it when you have a huge mouthful of goldfish crackers, and then the phone rings, and you have to really try and chew them up in a hurry so that you don't sound like someone who stuffs 400 goldfish at a time into their mouth, and then it turns out to be a telemarketer that you don't want to talk to anyway, and your goldfish cracker eating experience has been ruined?

Yeah, that happened to me just now.

I actually sort of thought it would be my mom. They went up to the funeral. Yesterday my mom was all like, "I'll call you!" and I replied (somewhat sarcastically) "Yeah, sure," and she acted all hurt. But come on. The whole family went to Florida without me for a whole week last year and none of them called. They're away two days for a funeral, and they're going to call me this time? And what is there to report, really? On a trip you can be like, "Oh, we saw this, and this, and this today." What are they going to say about a funeral? "Yeah, she's still dead."

So I'm not holding my breath.

Sunday, April 06, 2003

Roflmao. I found this post on Perv Blog. "'er" is in reference to me:

"I'd do 'er. No, really, I mean it and now she knows that I read her blog and she'll think I'm a perv and she'll hate me and call me names and tell all her friends that I'm a perv and a big loser and mock me and make me feel like a big perv loser so I think about killing myself and they'll all say, "Oh good, let the big perv loser kill himself" and she'll say, "Yeah, it's what the big perv loser deserves anyway." and then I'll have to buy a gun and stuff only I'm also a chickenshit so I'll just end up wasting hundreds of dollars on a gun I'll never use and then she'll KNOW that I'm a big perv loser and she and her friends will mock me some more until I think about killing myself, only I won't have the guts to do it AGAIN so they'll just keep making fun of me and I'll feel really small and worthless and my whole life will be ruined all because of this stupid blog.


I'd still do 'er, though."


I love it. Once I find out who this guy is in real life, I won't have to pay for sex anymore :P
Oh, and I put these up on my server AGES ago (like, in the fall), but have never linked them. Anyway, I have these beautiful, awesome wallpapers that Pablo made out of a drawing I made.

Wallpapers My favorites are red n' yellow and blue n' black.
gah.... who else hates daylight savings time? In this age of electric lighting, who the hell cares if there's an hour less sunlight half the year? It's a HUGE inconvenient pain in the ass for such a small return. And while falling back is a pain, springing forward is a MEGA pain because you're always having to get up earlier. I'm tired. Stupid daylight savings time.

Friday, April 04, 2003

My Grandma died today. I actually don't feel that sad. I never saw her that often, and even then she wasn't that nice to me. I actually feel much worse guilt-wise about not being sad enough than I feel bad from actually being sad. My sister was sad. Why aren't I? I felt worse when our dog died. And I felt worse than when our dog died when I failed driver's ed.

In conclusion, I am a horrible person.

Thursday, April 03, 2003

I am TIRED of this. Every day I phone up the radio station for the tour, every day they call me back when I'm at class, every day I call back again and they've left already. GRAAHAAHAHAA! I hate it. That's why I didn't want to be the phoner-upper in the first place. I finally was like, "SCREW IT! You do it!" to my other group members.

Also: a bit annoyed at my TV group members. They don't ever listen to what I say, and they don't listen to what the prof says. And keeping the iris steady when the sun keeps coming out of and going under clouds is a bitch and a half.

Also, working on ACS prog, which always makes me homicidal.

Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Well, the el classo diablo test tonight was a thorough rout. That program I skipped doing, there were 2 questions about it (12 points each, on a 100 pt test) that make it so that if I get 100% on the other parts + the 6 point extra credit question, the highest possible score I can get is a B- so I'm sure I didn't get 100% on the rest, so I get a C or lower no matter what..

not that the test yesterday (H&S/el classo stupido) wasn't a rout. I probably flunked it.

NO MATTER WHAT, though, I must get a C or better in both of these classes, so I don't have to %^&*&^%ing take them again.

Tomorrow, and Friday up until noon: I must work on El Classo Diablo program that I actually should've been working on all week, but was too busy studying for tests and doing other projects.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU BASTARD!!!!! YOU ATE MY HUGE POST ON HOW I HATE GROUPWORK, PLAYING PHONE TAG WITH A RADIO STATION, AND ACS BREAKING MY WILL TO LIVE! AND I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO TYPE IT ALL OUT AGAIN! THIS IS THE SECOND TIME RECENTLY!!! I HATE YOU!

Note to self: give more thought to greymatter or moveable type, or at least copying things before hitting post

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

I've had 2 hotdogs already today. I wonder if they'll become my new nachos. (i.e. disgusting food item I eat every day to avoid the nearly as disgusting choices I've been eating for the last 3 years)
I'm also beginning to believe that I have freakishly sweaty armpits
Oh and to add insult to injury, I'm #2 on yahoo for: "My butt is getting bigger."
Grrr, too much crap/stuff to work on.

1) I have to study for an acs test. (el classo diablo)
2) I have to study for another ACS test (el classo stupido)
2) I have to finish an ACS proj (el classo diablo)
3) I have to finish another ACS proj (el classo stupido)
4) I have to help someone with the first ACS proj. I suppose I don't have to, but I agreed to. I always wish I had someone to help me with this crap, the least I can do is help her with the crap. Though, sadly, I more end up just letting her copy off of me because explaining is too hard. I really, really hope we aren't caught on it. The last thing I need is plagiarism charges on top of my already poor ACS grades. (el classo stupido)
5) This friday I have to go to a radio station and ask them questions. It's with a group, and we have to give a presentation of it afterwards. The guy in our group picked the station because he's the only one of us with a car, and that's the only station he knows how to drive to. I was going to make him call the station to arrange an appointment, but he's busy. So I have to get in contact with the station, and of course their website is "under construction" and has no useful contact info. And of course the book with radio station numbers we have at WZND (our college station) is locked in someone's office. Grrrr, someone up there doesn't like me. (Radio I)