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tattooedgeek — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:42:17 GMT

so sleepy this morning...

i'm working 12 hrs overtime this week. bah. but since i haven't had a job for a while and am getting ready to start school again, i figured i'd take the overtime while i can.

had an awesome night monday hanging out with cooter and another friend. and i can't wait to see some of the awesomeness that was captured on camera. huzzah faux-sapphic lucha fun times.

off to work

if you haven't yet...

tattooedgeek — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:49:28 GMT

sunday is your last day to see Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog for free. do it! it's super-fantastic, as i expected!

www.drhorrible.com

^_^

tattooedgeek — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:51:25 GMT

i'm feeling good! better than i have or a while now.

i just wrapped up the first week of my new/old job. (i was laid off bc i was seasonal, but now i'm back as a permanent employee. huzzah!) i had a nice day to start the weekend with. it's nice coming back to a job and having several people whom i wouldn't have thought would have remembered me, come up and say they are glad to see me back. though i think that's because they're glad to have a class of noobs to relieve the mandatory overtime that's been going on for weeks now. haha.

also i have a slumber party with cooter and another awesome friend to look forward to monday night.

aaaaaaaaand riotnrrd and i are getting ready to go walk to our favorite nummy italian restaurant.

oh! and there is a shit ton of really good MMA on this weekend. 2 good and 1 amazing cards in three days. i'm excited to see some top-notch heavyweight action. you don't get to see that too often.

,
--tg

for arin....

tattooedgeek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:14:44 GMT

'cause she got it stuck in my head!

god damn, i love spank rock!

sweet wishes...

tattooedgeek — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:04:58 GMT

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

tattooedgeek — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:04:20 GMT

today was my first day back to work. it went way better than i expected it to, what with me only getting an hour and a half's sleep total, and that was in mostly 15-20 minute chunks.

i am off to pass the fuck out.

^_^

tattooedgeek — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:16:20 GMT

huzzah! things! i have accomplished them!

i'm getting my shit together to go to school. finally getting my BFA. it's been so long since i've been in school, i'm glad i didn't need a portfolio to get into the college of fine arts. i don't exactly have a lot of recent, portfolio-worthy material as of late.

i had to actually go to the school to apply bc of some glitch on their website demanding i pay them $65 before they would process the application. talked to the transfer student coordinator, requested my old college transcripts be sent to the new school. all i have to get now is my high school transcripts (for whatever fuckin' reason) and my financial aid stuffs.

i also had a driving lesson from mom. i'm trying to learn to drive a standard. bah, flashbacks to high school. *shudder* i lasted about 15 mins. 10 mins in the parking lot getting it to do more than lurch and die, then 5 mins on the street, with stop signs at every block. i stalled it quite a few times. attempting again tomorrow evening.

i've done nothing for forever now. and now i feel like i'm on the cusp of being busy constantly. but this is a good thing. i've been stagnant for far far too long. i hope i don't burn out horrifically.

bah

tattooedgeek — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:51:08 GMT

pms + my horrific procrastination + new job + going back to school + finances = not a happy tg.

so instead of a rant on my self-inflicted anxieties, here's some videos that make me smile.

last week of freedom

tattooedgeek — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:58:46 GMT

yesterday was fun times. ate lunch with some friends from out of town. had dinner with some former/future coworkers (including cooter), and then went to a club to dance with some friends (including raeli). we got there before most everyone arrived. riotnrrd was already tired. i drank my $5 pitcher-sized screwdriver WAY to quickly. we didn't stay long. while riotnrrd drives home, i get even drunker as the alcohol digests and also get slightly car sick. i crashed as soon as we got home. totally shocked i wasn't horrifically hung over this morning. woo-hoo!

this is my last week before i go back to work. technically, i go to orientation this friday. i so don't wanna go back, but i'm totally over not bring home any money. haha. it's the place i worked this past holiday season. it's a decent place to work, but i'm starting to get nervous about gong back. way more nervous than the first time, oddly. gah. stupid anxiety.

tomorrow i step up the appointments to get my school stuff in line for this fall. gotta get my financial shit in line. as does riotnrrd. if we both end up going back to school this fall, i'm not sure if we'll be able to afford the SF trip. stupid priorities, stupid poverty.

this fall is going to cah-razy. the school i'm going to and my workplace are 50 miles apart, with my abode right in the middle. i'm HOPING that i'll be able to only do one or the other on any given day. i've never attempted a 'real' job and school at the same time. i hope i don't end up killing myself.

<3 to DN!

this is fucking brilliant

tattooedgeek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:32:43 GMT

it's called Food Party. bad puns, a gun fight, the devil, drug references, a MIDI verison of "I'll Be There" by the Jackson 5, and a very, VERY heavy influence from PeeWee's Playhouse -- what else could you want from a cooking show?!

FOOD PARTY

book meme

tattooedgeek — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:42:49 GMT

"The Big Read* reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (currently reading, actually)
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - A.S. Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've read some, but not all)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

so my results are fairly sad. too much i haven't read that i need to get around to. at least i've read more than 6, haha.

but this list has too much Dickens! i hate Dickens. "Nobody quotes Dickens in MY house!"

decent days and night

tattooedgeek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:14:14 GMT

this weekend was fun. chock full o' movies

friday riotnrrd & i watched some flicks we just hadn't gotten around to yet, Ratatouille and The Producers (the musical). i loved Ratatouille. The Producers was much better than i thought it would be. the original is one of my all-time favorites. and while Matthew Broderick is no Gene Wilder (who is? you know, other than Gene.) it was certainly worth watching, if for nothing else other than Will Ferrel as the nazi playwright.

saturday night we socialized with some friends i hadn't spent time with in forever. the night was filled with pizza, scattergories and a hot tub.

yesterday my best friend and i saw Wall-E. YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE! it's unbelievably cute. i teared up near the end, cause i'm a sucker like that. haha. (random trivia about me: the first movie that i can remember making me cry is Follow that Bird. they locked up Big Bird and he sang a sad song! oh noes!)

then my friend and i get home and watched Les Triplettes de Belleville and had some great conversations. i was sad he was too tired afterward to watch the Birdcage with me. i fuckin' LOVE that movie. i've got a small toy turtle that in high school i named Agador Sparticus.

love to my loverly DNers. DNites? DNians? what are we anyways?

dream, dream, dream....

tattooedgeek — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:47:08 GMT

i just woke up from the most bizarre dream.

i went to go visit my dad (whom i haven't seen since i was 11 or 12, by my own choice) in Scranton, PA. i went to the address where i was supposed to meet him, this old dilapidated house, and there were about 7-10 squatters there. i look around, none are my dad. i sit down and wait. what seemed like hours pass and i get up to wander about looking for him. i go into a bedroom and see him asleep on the bed. i lean over and wake him up. he looked at me with a blank stare. "don't you recognize me? look at my eyes. look at my nose." "Mandy...?" he said, fucking up my name.

i get pissed and decide to leave. i started thinking about other places i could go (home was not one of them, for whatever reason.), and decided on heading for NC to my uncle's house. i'm outside and he runs out after me, apologizes, and asks me to come inside for dinner. i'm not hungry and vegetarian i tell him, but i end up going back in and cooking dinner with him. we stand side by side at the stove. i look over and see his face is mine. i see we have relatively the same build, tall and lanky. it was exceptionally bizarre because i TOWER over my 'real' family. my mom is 5'1''', stepdad 5'7''. i'm between 5'10 & 5'11''. i'm looking at a relative stranger and seeing all these similarities. i gasp and pull away, taking the hot cast iron pan of frying chicken with me and it crashes to the floor. i scream in preparation of the grease splashing my bare legs. and then i wake up.

(sorry if that was unreadable. i had to stream-of-consciousness that mother-fucker and clean it up afterwards.)

fuckin' weird as hell. i'm not the type that dreams and remembers. this was so vivid. i could smell the old squatters' place and the frying food.

i'm also not the type to analyze dreams, for they are IMHO just brain vomit from your recent experiences. i pride myself of being rational with these sorts of things.

but that doesn't mean i don't feel weirded out afterwards.

hahaha!

tattooedgeek — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:58:56 GMT

dr. sue is the best.

"Don't let 'em put you down / Don't let 'em push you around"

tattooedgeek — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:16:27 GMT

hahaha. i love this song way too much.

it's soooo bad, but soooo good. the video is classic. haha!

pics from this weekend

tattooedgeek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:07:52 GMT

here's my favorites!

unfortunately, almost none of the pics i took indoors came out well enough to post. :(

check them all out here.

zzzzzzzzzzz.....

tattooedgeek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:13:18 GMT

i'm exhausted!

this weekend's shindig was fun fun times. i'm sad it's over.

i'm off to crash. pictures later.

<3

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tattooedgeek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:34:44 GMT

took some new myspaceish photos what with the new hair color and all.

i have fancy plans and pants to match

tattooedgeek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:12:28 GMT

my favorite scene from one of my all-time favorite shows:

soundtrack to your life meme

tattooedgeek — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:55:20 GMT

Opening Credits
Kick Out the Jams by Rage Against the Machine

Waking Up
Diamond Dogs by David Bowie

First Day at School
I'll Soon Get My Revenge by Unknown Hinson
(hahaha!)

Falling in Love
Slow by Reverend Horton Heat

Fight Song
Bottlenose by Smoosh

Breaking Up
St James Infirmary Blues by the White Stripes

Prom
Closer to the Heart by Rush
(again, hahaha!)

Life
Edit the Sad Parts by Modest Mouse
(huh.)

Mental Breakdown
Stomp Box by They Might be Giants

Driving
aka I-D-I-O-T by the Hives

Flashback
My Way Home by Kanye West

Wedding
50-50 by Frank Zappa

Birth of a Child
Smoke Along the Track by Dwight Yoakam

Final Battle
You Will Go To The Moon by Moxy Fruvous

Death Scene
Avantcore by Busdriver

Funeral Song
Bruised by Ben Folds

End Credits
Hurt by NIN

new hairs

tattooedgeek — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:16:52 GMT

and you don't even have to see my ugly mug!

today

tattooedgeek — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:07:56 GMT

this morning, i looked out at my garden and saw this!

it's my first blossom on my squash. yay! i can't wait until they are full grown so i can eat 'em up! nom nom nom...

i also got a call from the prospective/former job saying they want me back. i had to fill out some things online and they should call me in a couple days for sure. woo hoo! yay for not being unemployed! and that means it's hair dyeing time! but what color to choose? i got tons, it'll depend on my mood right then, i suppose.

aaaaaaand, i can finally put my hair in pig tails, so it's off of my neck. this will make growing the hair out much easier.

only FOUR more days til we leave for Louisville! sooo excited! so many deviants i haven't met will be there. i hope i don't spaz too horribly.

Bill O'Reilly vs Battletoads!

tattooedgeek — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:21:57 GMT

WeGame.com - Gaming Videos

summer nightmare #23 over

tattooedgeek — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:26:08 GMT

i FINALLY found bathing suit that like, that also wasn't horrifically expensive. huzzah!

the day was spent buying comics & other books, drinking coffee and visiting an annoying friend with an adorable baby.

hope you all out there in deviant land have a great weekend!

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tattooedgeek — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:42:08 GMT

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