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Newness

~lindalemela — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:31:15 PDT

So again I've been away for a while...it comes and goes in phases, but where last time was because I had moved to SC for the first time and was in and out of the hospital for sick time, this time was because we were engrossed in the house-searching process, buying our house, then moving into it! Yes, that's right, we finally bought a house and moved our butts into a place of our own! I love it, too...it's so nice to be able to control your own house temperature, invite people over, watch tv that you want to watch, and breathe without being buried in dust and fur.

Anyway, my free time seems to have returned for brief bouts...and I'll be posting loads of new pictures of the house and yard soon!

Happy birthday to me...

~lindalemela — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:26:27 PST

...clean up some cat pee....

Yeah, I get up this morning and pick up some things around the room to discover that one (or both) of my cats has peed underneath my nightstand, on the bottom shelf. Oh yeah....talk about a birthday present! Now it looks like I'll get to spend my day doing laundry, cleaning up cat pee, and not getting to really enjoy my day. woo.

((oh, and I get to miss out on the big double xp weekend on city of heroes, but eh))

new year at a glance

~lindalemela — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:40:30 PST

Well, I'm settled in, moved down, and have gotten through my first 6 months living with my fiance, and the world is a pretty place Mind you, these past couple of months I've been feeling really crappy and have had to go to the doctor alot, plus I'm about to miss out on the chance to see my best friend for the first time since before I moved down...all those things would make me depressed if I didn't have the giant picker-upper of having a new kitty to act as little brother to my Arya, a calming and caring fiance, and a fairly supportive group of friends to keep me company.

It's a new year, and new years have to, of course, have resolutions. I just looked back at last year's resolutions and...I have to say...I'm saddened...lol. My single resolution was apparently to GRADUATE...which I did not do. Well, not legally, anyhow. I did the pomp and circumstance, but still have 7 credits to go. This year, I will, as I've already scheduled classes, one of which may be paid for by work too!

This year, my resolution is simple: Be happy! I'm going to the gym, losing weight, and eating a good diet already, I'm gonna finish school, we're going to get a house in the fall, so all that's left to worry about this year is keeping myself sane and happy...bwahaha!

To start, I'm doing more writing, upping my cleaning standards, and working on the 100 Themes project. I'm taking it from two angles, so we'll see how well I do with it...lol I'll, of course, be tackling the Introduction first.

Other creative projects this year include:

*My novel: I'll be working on a mini-series for some of the minor characters to get a grasp on the environment, then pushing into November for NaNoWriMo again. The goal: A fully developed ecosystem and character structure

*Beadwork: more necklaces are on the way, plus some designs for wire stuff midyear!

*WIC: I'm going to be working on the layout and stuff for my roleplaying group...once I get a place I'll be able to host the site and continue the worlds!

*Photography Website: Going to be designing a website for one of my friends to use as a showcase/selling point for her photos.

100 Themes

~lindalemela — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:38:46 PST

Please make sure to copy whole journal (list and rules below this point)

the point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist. After 100 pics who wouldnt be better. Please forgive me if this in any way excludes you from taking the challenge.

The Rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your artwork, note it as part of the list and what ONE theme it belongs to.

Current Themes Finished: /100

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

Where are my glasses?

~lindalemela — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:32:18 PDT

So funny story....last night I had a dream where I was inside a game, and for each level I passed I gained an extra pair of glasses that had special powers. Well, apparently this morning I 'woke up' and started digging around the room for my 'other' glasses...while Carl was pointing out that they were on my face already...and I actually ARGUED that they weren't the pair I was talking about...I was looking for the ones I had won...^_^;;

dA 5...yeah :)

~lindalemela — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:32:44 PDT

I love the bigger pictures on the front page.......and absolutely have fallen for the new user pages.......multipic! WOOT! The bigger font size is only slightly annoying...I'll get used to it in a day or two...but the daily devs on the front page have got to go! I miss them on the side panels...I had hoped they would move them to where the ads usually are near the top of the pages in a panel but it seems we've sacrificed them for the new user pages that I love so much lol

Moved In and Settling Down

~lindalemela — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:52:30 PDT

Sorry about the blank post...I actually forgot how to use this thing lol

I've noticed that I haven't really put anything in here for about the last 6 months, though I have been giving out comments every so often...That's because the last 6 months have been occupied by two part-time jobs (one at 30-40 hours a week) and a semester of classes followed by a psuedo graduation where I acknowledged that I failed 3 classes because of personal stuff and family issues (them fighting and having fullout depression because of multiple things...including but not limited to the fact that I was moving away at the end of the semester), so it was followed by a fulltime job and a month of a class and then by a move in with my fiance, who has been wonderfully patient with me as I try to adjust to the heat down here I got a transfer from one store in ohio to one down here in SC just 3 days after moving and upgraded to assistant manager, only to find that my boss is one from hell...so after a month of that I'm finally saying enough is enough and quitting due to stress, illness from stress, and general unhappiness/depression/listlessness...so lucky that I got a bit of spending money and a transfer but unlucky that it's crappy...I need something with steady hours, sick days, and holidays...and a boss who ISN'T spawned from the same demon litter as my voice teacher.

((I ran into one of the same problems I ran into at school...for assistant managers, they require doctor's notes for every sick day you miss. Now, I'm not one of those people who run to the hospital every time they feel so icky that they can't move...(generally because of the can't move thing)...but I usually wait until the next day to see if it has gone away. Another note: not quitting because of the doctor's note thing...I had already decided to do so...but I find it an annoying policy.))

I also lost both of my hamsters...one before moving and the other a little more than a week ago, but the kitty is doing fine (except we have a big flea problem thanks to the dog and the sand down here...bleh!!!) and the lizard likes the heat. (well, someone has to!)

But the big push to quit my job (other than the support from people around me who encouraged me to say no...lol) was the call to my old school to get permission to take as long as I need to finish the 3 classes. Not needing the money as badly, I can now take my time to find a job I'll be happy with, or at least satisfied with, I can work on my craft stuff again, finally, and I can start writing again. The initial plan was to get a job and take night classes, but the retail job would have conflicted (or continued to conflict with at least my sleep habits...I've been sleeping about 2 hours a night, 4 if I'm lucky, and once I finally sent out other job applications and said, I'm typing up my notice, I slept a full 8 hours...it was amazing and I felt great!)...I was already running into trouble getting a bloodtest done so I could apply to the school; we had money for the 1st class but not for the other two, so this way we have time to save...not to mention that after a year, I'll be considered in state, so my class price will go from $9k to $1-3k total depending on when I take them/summer semester or fall semester. NOT to mention that I'll be able to say, hey, I'm an independant, so be able to put on my fafsa that I'm not counting on parental help (for some reason, that thing says you're a dependant unless you have kids or are 23! I don't get it and it makes me grumpy, but this way I can get help with the lower amount to begin with.)

Then the other bad news was that two lightning bolts hit at the same time and connected on my dad's tower at my family's house in ohio...frying his business and doing some major electrical damage to the house, though the only machine (other than my dad's business stuff, which racked up at last count 10k and I think still climbing because things were hidden...though he's fighting insurance tooth and nail...this is my family's livelihood, you know?)...the only machine completely fried was my mom's computer, (oh, and the entire garage door system had to be replaced)...which she freaked about because of all the pictures she had on there (the computer, not the door)...but other basic wiring was fried too...and my brother shaun was upset because they no longer had money to send him to college...but anywho...they're at bottom right now, which sucks...and I've been getting calls and emails from my mom almost daily because she's worried about dad overworking himself to try to get everything back online, or falling off the tower because he's tired, or the tower collapsing on top of the house because the integrity has been damaged...which I'm still praying about...and Shaun's school just informed him that they aren't going...

100001 Ways to use Ramen Noodles

~lindalemela — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:55:36 PST

Excerpts from:

9999. Crunch them up and use them as a sub for chow mein noodles in a salad.

200. Crunch them up, mix them with peanut butter and chocolate and make some haystack cookies.

32. Make soup.

468. (What? The numbers went up?) Cook them without the flavor stuff and use them as a rice substitute under some meat and veggies!

and the number one way to use ramen:

Stick them in a dryer at 2 A.M. and watch how fast the dorms evacuate even though the snow is 2 feet deep! (No joke, some morons did this my freshman year...our laundryroom was in the basement of the dorms and it not only set off the smoke alarm, but made black smoke drift quite effectively up into the rest of the building. It was cold. I chose flip-flops. Poor choice.)

But I digress. I'm just chillin here looking for a computer program which will allow me to keep track of my meals so I can figure out how long my food will last until I have to break down and take my pennies to the grocery store in order to buy more food. Right now I'm set for a month, maybe more...ramen roolz!

A new year, a new year :)

~lindalemela — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:40:11 PST

Happy new year everyone! And with the new year come new resolutions! Or so they say. Let's see...what will my resolution be this year...hrm...to graduate! That's a good one. I think that's it...lol Everyone have a safe and pleasant new year...I'm gonna go to bed so I can get to work on time tomorrow

sniffle...

~lindalemela — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:15:09 PST

IT'S GOOOOOOOONE....all my journally goodness ish GOOOOONE...*poutcry*

Senior Seminar Presentation. Le Suck.

~lindalemela — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:24:35 PST

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~lindalemela — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:58:11 PST

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

Commissions on hold for beadwork until further notice.

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Sometimes I wish I didn't care...failure wouldn't be so hard then.

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Quick views of some personal favorites in my gallery:

Purple! You have purple eyes! You're a dreamer,
artist, poet, whatever. You enjoy all forms of
art and literature, and tend to be quite good
at creating them as well.

What Color Are Your Anime Eyes?
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Kiriban at 2,000: Winner is Purple rose has been sent AND I forgot to take a pic of it...*bah*

What are you waiting for?

~lindalemela — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:03:11 PST

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

Commissions on hold for beadwork until further notice.

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I'm not living. It's a common misconception. The moments I have from day to day, just pieces of what a life would be if I had one. The end of my college years are so very very close now...I almost touch them to have them yanked away again, and as the time of my graduation stretches further and further away I get more and more frustrated. If I fail one class, one single class, I'll be forced to take a fall semester, and I just don't want to do that. I want to be done, to be out of here, to be finished with school and into the real world. I've got a foot in both worlds right now, and I don't know how some people can do it. I barely can...and it's edging closer to I can't. It's painful. I want to quit, to give up, but if I do I'll have wasted a good 40,000 dollars on nothing, right? Maybe it's because now that I've got a taste of the real world by living off campus I want more, and I can't have it. I'm tired of spending every minute of free time working on one paper after another, trying to waste time by watching a movie and then feeling the endless guilt afterward for not doing some homework or another that now I don't have time to do. Tired. I got sleep this weekend...hopefully it'll be enough to pull me through another week...but of course, in getting sleep my homework again neglected. I want to live, I want my freetime to be just that, free time, not homework time. Some people go to school with a mentality that it's college, we can do whatever and slide by somehow...I've never lived with that mentality. I'm here to learn and to make friends, and maybe catch a movie or two. I go to one or two major parties a year, I leave early from one of them. I'm not irresponsible, I'm not lazy. I'm tired. And I want to be done with school, done with worrying about failing classes so I can graduate and deal with a solid schedule rather than an everchanging one that I can't even keep up with. Hope. I know it'll change...and if I don't pass these classes I'll probably sink into some pit of despair that it'll take me all next semester to get out of...I don't know how much more of this I can handle. There's a month left of the semester. I haven't unpacked my things yet (still!), and my mind is crumbling over the strain of disorder. Tired. I just want to really live.

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Quick views of some personal favorites in my gallery:

Commissions on hold for beadwork until further notice.

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Mood: *sigh*

Just for fun (and I say fun with the loosest sense of the term), let's recap my school year thus far:
Week 1: "Yay, I have a good feeling about this semester!"
Week 2: Carl's sister died, went to South Carolina for the week to be with him.
Week 3: Realized that over a week I had accumulated not only 1,556 pages to read in order to catch up (2 novels were in there, plus 5 days of MWF classes and 2 days of TTH classes), but I also had to do it in a week. Got planner to help figure out what I had to do and to help manage my time more efficiently.
Week 4: Still tried to play catch up, started falling behind again in classes. Started a job so that I could actually pay my bills. *gasp.* Lost planner. The suck. Realized that I am an incompetant human being who shouldn't be allowed to bother society. Depression ensued, followed by massive inability to remember ANYTHING, seemed worse than it was before I got the planner to begin with.
Week 5: Found planner. Got a flu bug which compounded with a nasty sinus infection that hung on and wouldn't go away. (I attribute it to lack of sleep from staying up too late every single night to catch up the previous two weeks...3-4 hours a night doesn't cut it.) Worked at home during the weekend, didn't get a chance to do homework, got chewed out by parentals because I wanted to use a different vehicle that used less gas mileage rather than a big SUV that I couldn't afford gas on, regardless of the fact that getting to work in the winter is going to be near impossible. And because I didn't have money and I had "failed" to live on my own successfully. (Please note that not once ever did I ASK for money nor demand that I be given a car to drive.) And when I say chewed out, I mean fucking chewed out. Flu/sinus went away, turned into regular cold. Found out that Josh lost his job, ended up in hospital with cancerous cyst, almost died during surgery, got an infection and almost died from that, went bankrupt from hospital bills, and I worried.(Yes, his week was crapasstacular...all I did was worry about him....and yes, I realized that my troubles were nothing compared to his, then that made me more depressed because then I felt selfish)
Week 6: Realized that I was behind again because I'd intended to do homework during the weekend but work didn't give me a chance to sit down. Grandpa entered hospital. Fall Break ensued, went south instead of doing homework which is my own damn fault. Lots of driving, very tiredness. Catalitic converter broke on the car...will cost about $200-300 to fix. South Cakalackey fixed my sinuses and cold went away.
Week 7: Failed to turn in my senior seminar outline for class, took assessment exam and did very poorly. Had mental breakdown by myself. Forced self to reevaluate future. Made a decision to drop a class and leave SAI for good, thus eliminating SAI and Intro to Journalism...I probably should have dropped my seminar to take it in the spring...if only I hadn't needed the credit hours...Weighed the pros and cons of taking a leave of absence for a semester while I tried to regain my financial balance. Decided to stick with it if only because I'd be able to move sooner...and my grades will show the penalty that is the result of missing far too many classes, having professors not believe that you're going through too much shit at the moment to want to live, and failing exams from lack of preparation due to too much shit. Boss scheduled me to work during a day that I had previously requested off so that I could go to a conference in cleveland for copyediting, a conference that may have boosted my marketability for my future career. Given that I didn't even have enough money for gas to get to the conference, I gave in and went to work.
Week 8: Worked a 30 hour week at walden's because people can't show up to work, a 10 hour week at the newspaper, and started getting a cold again. Missed classes, meals, etc. in order to study for other classes and finish projects and homework. Almost missed midterm for holocaust, almost missed midterm for computer science, realized a week late that I had a paper due for a class AS HE WAS HANDING THEM BACK TO US! >.< Was allowed to turn the paper in late (I did on M...

The Shower Splode followup

~lindalemela — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:31:11 PDT

Shower 'splode!

~lindalemela — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:13:49 PDT

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

Commissions on hold for beadwork until further notice.

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Mood: *twitch*
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: A Conspiracy of Decency - Emmy Werner
Watching: Corpse Bride

Uhhhhh...so I'm woken up this morning by my roommate who opens the door and says: "Sarah, I have a little problem in the bathroom I need you to help me with..."

I peer at her with one eye, roll out of bed while saying, "What'd you do? Is there a bug?" get to the door of the bathroom, poke my head in and say "Oh."

Enter Jocelyn, who is sitting in the tub with the water running, getting soaked because there is water coming from everywhere...the hot water handle, the showerhead, and the faucet.......

Apparently, she had twisted the handle and it came off...

So as I stand there trying to remember where the water cutoff for our apartment is I start laughing...whenever she let go a little off the handle (which is why she was sitting in the bathtub - she was holding the handle on) it squirted water everywhere...and when she took the handle off to see if there was another way to turn it off without the handle it shot water to the other side of the shower with an amount of pressure that looked like it could have killed someone. I've never seen a horizontal 'stream' of water before...and it was definitely perfectly horizontal...rofl

So then it starts leaking behind the shower...there's water all over the floor...and I find quickly that turning the blue knobby thing the wrong way make the hot water heater in my closet leak out into my closet.......

......and that I'm not strong enough to make it go the other way so that I can turn it off...lol

So I take Jocelyn's place while Rachel is calling every number she can think of, including the campus physical plant, for help...and Jocelyn uses her awesome muscles to turn off the water finally. It ran like that for a good 20 minutes, half hour...I cringe to see what our water bill is going to look like next month. On the other hand.......we now have no water and that's not good because I really have to go to the bathroom. Ah well.....time for me to go to class early I guess.......no studying for my exam nor eating this morning...

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Quick views of some personal favorites in my gallery:

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Mood: *twitch*
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: A Conspiracy of Decency - Emmy Werner
Watching: Corpse Bride

As I grow further and further from things that I want to do and closer to those that I HAVE to do I begin to realize something: growing up...sucks.

I dropped a class that I'd begun to fall too far behind in anyway, my intro to journalism class. Remember how I said I'd be double-dipping with articles and such? Turns out there were more than I'd expected and I didn't have enough done for the upcoming week's midterm.....so I got out before it ruined my major gpa. That and it is a 200 level course, which of course eats away at my chance to grab a bit of sanity among the remaining courses which I have to take next semester and locks me out of a 300 level course that I could be taking in my major. (My school is stupid. You are allowed to take 40 hours in your major. 40. And then they add any additional hours that you take on top of your requirements for graduation. So our graduation credits are 124...you can take up to 40 hours in your major. If you were to take 43, your graduation requirements would then become 127. That's just fucking stupid. I'm here to learn, not count classes. And if I had UNDERSTOOD just what that meant while I'm stuck here with needing to take summer courses because I can't take anymore courses in my major, I wouldn't have come at all. Period. It's a little late now.)

I am leaving SAI, yes, that's right, I quit the music classes after my minor was done, I don't have time for ensembles and I'm even leaving the music honorary. But see, here's the thing: I don't have money to spend $35 each for these two semesters to pay for my dues, $5 for every required concert that I miss, money for cords and whatever else for graduation (since I'm not graduating in the spring with everyone else that kind of makes it pointless anyway) and certainly not enough for the lifetime membership dues which would be over $100 and then money for the rest of my life until I find an alumni chapter which I then have to pay. I hate that they initiated that kind of lifetime payment plan, instead of a one-time fee for members to be 'lifetime' members. So, maybe in a way I'm rebelling against it early, cutting the chains now while I still have time to not waste my money on a cash-guzzling organization which keeps wanting more money still. I don't have time to participate in events, and I know some people have taken semesters or even a year off, but I think it's pointless...being in a sisterhood should be about the sisters in it...and I certainly don't feel that happening from out here now. So I'm out, I'm done, and I'm sorry to whoever might care.

Broke even this month on bills. I have to hope that my next couple paychecks this month get transferred to my checking account so that I actually have money in there to be able to send to my credit card company for that bill...I'm aiming for $200 in the checking account but I don't think I'm gonna make it. As long as there's $75...I'll be okay on the minimum. It's really hard having a bank that is 2 hours away...the closest one of the branch is an hour away and I'm not driving that to make a deposit...the gas money alone makes that stupid. Set aside my rent money and my electric bill money and my cable bill money for next month already, while I have it, because I worry about stuff like that. There'll be a phone and a water/sewer bill that I'll have to struggle for anyways. !!! And I totally was about to complain that I have enough cash left over to only fill up a gas tank when I remembered that I only owe $197 for rent this coming month so I actually CAN buy medicine and food...and that makes me overwhelmingly happy...I'll be buying the medicine first though...not sure how far $20 will go but I've got a cold and I need drugs! Worst, and probable, case I'll be eating ramen for the next 2 months, since I'll be saving every penny for paying of the bills.

On the positive side of things, I've got my planner back and am jammin' with things to do from work to papers to class to work again...yay. But more work means more money, and at the moment I...

MY PRECIOUS! I HAVE LOST IT! THE PRECIOUS IS GONE

~lindalemela — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:51:28 PDT

On being accused of cheating and lack of time

~lindalemela — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:53:25 PDT

I'm awake, really I am...

~lindalemela — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:54:54 PDT

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

Accepting commissions for beadwork!!

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Mood: *twitch*
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Postcolonial Literature

Random anecdote before long tired tirade:

When I walked up to my 8 oclock class this morning I passed a passle of children playing on the quad. These were elementary school kids, between 7 and 9, playing ball, jumping rope...and running after other children in the group with a chainsaw. As I walked past and watched the little boy chase his friends (or enemies, I couldn't tell) with the plastic working replica of a real chainsaw I couldn't help but think...*blank stare*..."oh, he must be pretending his friends are TREES when he goes after them while pulling on the little string..."..."and people wonder what is wrong with the youth today..."..."yep, there's a future killer on the loose there...."..."and we're PROMOTING IT?!?!" and then I followed it with another blank stare at the teachers watching them play. I really wish I had time to ask them why, but I was late for class.
(sorry, that last line, being a little ironic there........or maybe sardonic...whichever....in any case, I was really late for class, but the fact that thought came up while I was writing the anecdote seemed particularly insightful into some larger issues in the world...or maybe that's just me...I shouldn't try to stuff witty ambiguity into my little stories...)

When you last heard from this corner of cyberspace, I was moved into my apartment, getting ready to start school, and uberoptimistic about this school year. Now, just three short weeks later, you see before you an exhausted woman, putting too much time into her work and not enough time into her school and even less time into her social life. Bah. While I'm still excited about this school year and I think it's going to be great and a challenge at the same time...I am wishing there were more hours in the day to get things done. This past week I had 3 hours of sleep one night, 5 another, 4 another, and finally 1 whole hour of sleep last night. I had a 4 hour nap one day because I passed out...I was just grateful that the passing out came when I had sat down to do some studying on the couch rather than while I was walking or in a classroom. All in all, the sleep thing shouldn't bother me. I was used to a 4 hours a night schedule my freshman and part of my sophomore year. But then I got spoiled by this 'bedtime' thing, which Carl helped me impose on myself. It was part of my 'live healthier because if you don't start getting sleep you'll just start getting sicker' plan. Which worked great...I've been amazingly more healthy since I started getting sleep. Even my dizzy spells come fewer and farther between. It's a combination of a few things that happened to work for me. This week though...damn. I feel like my eyes are half open all the time and I'm walking around in a daze...when I AM able to articulate WORDS it rarely makes sense...I'm behind in everything...and when I try to get sleep like I did last night it doesn't help. Part of the reason for my insomniatic tendencies? Too much to do, not enough time to do it in. Which isn't wholly unusual for college students, particularly those who also make a point to complain that they never have enough time in the day in their blogs, which they write while they should be catching up on all those other things that they should be doing. *taps forehead* Real smart, this one.

So what is keeping me so infernally busy? I mean, I haven't even started my second job yet (which, by the way, I'm now employed by Waldenbooks yay!), it's not even through the third week of school, and I'm only taking five classes, for crying out loud. Truthfully...I can't figure it out. This is the first time I've blogged this week, and I've barely been on my computer for more than a half hour every day this week. So it's not that the computer is stealing my time. It's not the new playstation or the new playstation 2, because between my roomie and my best friend they keep me off of it (by playing it themselves, of course...lol), though I have played for about an hour a night just to try to unwind enough to be ABLE to sleep. It's not, as I said, my second job, because I haven't started it yet, (it'll be add...

NEW APARTMENT!

~lindalemela — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:15:20 PDT

It's the poorhouse for me :P

~lindalemela — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:08:20 PDT

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3 (rewrite)
Watching: Treasure Planet (thanks to deviant dolphy)

Yes, I was bored...missing my Carl who's staying out all night roleplaying and helping friends with a yardsale since they're trying to move...got to talk to my bro about how high school marching band is going this year (since we got another new band director). Funny story: At band camp, one of the bass drummers was walking (with his drum on) past the trumpet sectional and his shorts were too loose...so they fell down to his ankles...after struggling to pull them back up with his drum still on, apparently it took him quite a while longer to unhook his drum and harness, pull up his shorts, tie the drawstring, and put the drum back on...and go on walking as if nothing happened...lmao...My brother's impression of the whole thing was what got me...he impersonated the kid perfectly But I digress:

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I will have internet until Sunday, at which time I will be packing and completing my final move to the apartment (*CHEERS* FINALLY!!!!!). Unfortunately, due to the gas of price (yeah, I mixed that up when I first typed it...didn't notice until I reread the paragraph...thought it was funny, so I left it that way...meheh for me constantly mixing phrases up...lol) and the fact that my mom hates me I wasn't able to get to the apartment to set up my internet, phone, and cable like I planned...so I dunno how long I'll be stuck without it Bear with me and don't forget me while I'm gone!

I'm broke and about to go into more debt...bug me for beadwork so I can eat food! Yeah...definitely going tomorrow to get a loan...from...my credit card. Someone shoot me in the foot now. (No wait, I already have. My parents are probably right, it was irresponsible to rent an apartment my senior year instead of buying a car...what am I saying? Hell, it's my last year of college...I haven't done anything REALLY risky until now...so I'm starting the year in debt and hoping to end the year breaking even instead of more in debt like always...)

The fact that I'll have rent bills, utility and services bills, very little chance of finding a job within walking distance (since I won't have a vehicle), have two hammies and a lizard to keep alive because I wuv them, and am about to sell my soul to my credit card company doesn't seem to deter me from the fact that I want to still get:

a router/network card for my compy (although I'd love my roomie to buy the router), a tv stand to put toby on (this is a neccessity, I guess), a scanner (maybe for christmas), clay and bead equipment (including acryllic paints for my new clay fetish...which occupied one more run to Michael's last Sunday for a shopping spree...I hate when I get upset and have to buy stuff to occupy my time and take my mind off things...dangit...I'm WEAK!), a car (which I don't have money at all for so won't happen until prolly we...

Bulleted Journal...W00T!

~lindalemela — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:00:16 PDT

Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3 (rewrite)
Watching: Treasure Planet (thanks to deviant dolphy)

Every now and then I figure I need a new style to work with so my stuff doesn't get boring and people don't stop reading...so today's style is going to be a bulleted list................but don't worry, I'm sure I'll revert back to the novel-style journal, Dea

RECENT EVENTS
Sprained my ankle and killed my back at work: have to stay off foot until wednesday and aircast until monday (as usual, I'm too stubborn to really keep off of it unless it actually hurts...which it has been ) My back hurts so bad right now that I can't turn my neck or move my left arm...and I'm on LOTS of ibuprofen drugs...are...good.
Bought a lizard: His name is Erunaaquel (Eh-roo-naw-quel)...or "Toby" for short (yes, it's the elvish equivalent, but no, no one calls him Erunaaquel.) He's a mali uromastyx, eats fruits and veggies, is dang cute, crawls up my arm, and no, I don't know what possessed me to buy him. Pics will be forthcoming after my move.
dA had a meltdown while I was away: I realized that some of the higherups were having issues, but I didn't know the extent until I popped my head back in yesterday and saw for myself. Very sad...and very disheartening when you look at the incredible powerplay that's going on. I love the current interface (except for the fact that the reason I got a subscription, the search tool, hasn't been working for months) and I think I'll be really upset if it changes. The reason we're here is to improve, encourage one another, have a safe haven for taking a chance and making our work public, and sharing with one another. NOT, as some would have it, to be the BEST or to have the most love or to bring others down so we can feel better about ourselves and make more money. I treasure my friends here, value their judgement and their help, as well as admire art by talented people who actually respond even when they're uberbusy Community means family...and that spirit is dwindling because of a corporate power-play...and I'm sad to see it happen. I hope the community can perservere, and that the powers that be discover that this FAMILY DESERVES TRUTH. And those are my two...bananas. I'd put in cents, but the money might go into the wrong pockets
My mom hates me, my mom doesn't hate me: Yes, still. lol...it never ends! This time, she got home from band camp, yelled at me over the phone while I was at work because a) I didn't clean the house well enough and b) I let the new kitten be beat up by the other cats and it's really sick and going to die now, thanks alot sah, you're useless and you might as well not come home (I kid you not, she was beyond pissed and said all manner of nasty things over the phone...I totally lost it at work because she upset me so much; it sucked.) I went home anyway because I have animals there that I can't just leave...

Website...Naming...Contest...and Kiriban

~lindalemela — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:34:35 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3 (rewrite)
Watching: Treasure Planet (thanks to deviant dolphy)

I need a new journal header...this one is getting old. But that's beside the point...

This journal is about..........a new website. I'm in no rush.....eventually I want to make a website for my beadwork where I can sell it and put all my pics up, but I expect that will come sometime later. I do my own web design ([link]) but my current one isn't holding much charm for me at the moment. My artwork, to say the least, isn't...good enough. And I want to commission someone to design a layout for me. A...pretty layout...one that I can look at all the time...rofl If you're interested, send me a note, or email someone you think would be interested and have them send me a note I want the new layout done for this school year so I can do business cards. So here's my working wishlist and conceptlist (these are all just thoughts, nothing's set in stone yet)...browse through and see if you might be able to help or suggest someone who'd be able to help. I just want the layout...I'll take care of the content. I'd use paypal for payment or send beadwork in exchange...maybe a bit of both if desired

An art concept designed around my persona of Lady Fianyth.
Simple setup, design and links as a base image or several images put together for the layout, with new pages (which I will do content for) opening inside the frame on the main page...(example: [link] except with a single character concept)
Links for Beadwork, Online Writing, Me, Friends, Links, RPG, that sort of stuff
An art concept based around some other character.
Character possibly anime, but definitely some awesome lineart and coloring for the layout as a whole...
Coordinating background and color scheme for tabled pages
4 different character layouts, based around Lady Fianyth again, but interchangeable for the seasons
Elements that appear or change when links for sections are moused over - javascript...I have the coding for it somewhere, need graphics done though...

The naming contest part:

I'm toying with some names for the site, including my fallbacks like The Worlds of Lady Fianyth or Immersion, but I'm looking for your ideas too! I'll stick all suggestions up in a poll so they can be voted for once all the sounding board stuff...

Drum Corps

~lindalemela — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:22:02 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3 (rewrite)
Watching: Hitch (got to see it finally!)

If a reporter were to interview me on my experiences in drum corps, what would I say...what else could I say except that drum and bugle corps saved my life? I was in a low spot in my life, which those of you who grew up with me know why, (not the lowest, that would come the year after I finished playing my soprano bugle for what I thought would be the last time) and drum corps literally gave me a reason to stand on my own two feet again, a reason for my heart to keep beating, my eyes to keep watching sunsets, my hands to keep writing, and my soul to hold strong. It gave me back my muses, my words, my voice. How can one explain that, despite all odds, one spark of creativity remained to express myself. Music, my second passion, but one my very heart bleeds to make happen on the field or in the choir room or in the church proper.
It began just as high school was starting to take a toll on me, my freshman year running smoothly but my writing career at a standstill. Still. I wasn't the best thing to hit the trumpet scene, far from it, but I liked it, at least, and it gave me something to do where I could hang out with my friends after school (legitimately...and not get in trouble for going out and having fun with my friends at a movie or a school dance...the abominations...lol). I had choir, too, to keep me afloat, but that was not the livelihood I needed...I needed more. I jumped at the chance to try something new, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Lord, it was hard. But it meant a whole summer away from home, and I needed that, a chance to improve my playing and my marching, and a chance to make new friends. I didn't expect to find a second family with open arms to take me in and teach me how to BE. I didn't expect to be swept away by the feel of the shows and the crowds and the beats of the percussion sections as they trooped the stands one last time. So much of myself went into the shows sometimes I barely remembered how we got from beginning to end but that it was a damn good feeling when it was over and we were at the buses smelling diesel fumes and polishing our horns before driving off to the next city, the next gym floor, the next worn-down practice field.
I felt great. I lived for it, breathed it, loved it. The solo I got my second year was even better, right on the 50 in front of thousands of people for the huge shows was amazing. None of them, I remember, was ever better than Grand Havens, Michigan. The crowd there was amazing, and their feedback sped us on our way...their energy fed into our own for a show that left us tingling and wanting to bottle that feeling up for a rainy day. All the little moments, through good times AND bad times during those 3 summers...those I thrived for.
Now, as I watch the young folks on the field, I remember that this would have been my last chance to march, last chance to feel that second wind on the field, to hear that roaring of the crowd, the mud sucking at my feet on a wet practice field. And I remember. I remember that it saved my life once, and I can keep a piece of it with me forever. But it doesn't stop the unexplainable feeling of the loss of it, missing it, and feeling as if my heart will break if I play another note.

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Thank You" - Dido
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3 (rewrite)
Watching: Hitch (got to see it finally!)

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I
got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window,
And I can't see at all
And even if I could it'd all be grey
Put your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad
It's not so bad

I drank too much last night, got bills to pay
My head just feels in pain
I missed the bus and there'll be hell today
I'm late for work again
And even if I'm there, they'll all imply
That I might not last the day
And then you call me and it's not so bad
It's not so bad

I want to thank you
For giving me the best day of my life
Oh, just to be with you
Is having the best day of my life

Push the door, I'm home at last
And I'm soaking through and through
Then you handed me a towel
And all I see is you
And even if my house falls down now
I wouldn't have a clue
Because you're near me and

I want to thank you
For giving me the best day of my life
Oh, just to be with you
Is having the best day of my life

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Purple! You have purple eyes! You're a dreamer,
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Numbers...blurry...

~lindalemela — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:00:29 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: all typed out
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" - Anna Nalick
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3
Watching: The Wedding Crashers!

Well, Carl made it home safe and sound...and I miss having him here...*sigh* It was a really good weekend - we even got to go to the apartment and put furniture together...I don't know about him, but I had fun Found a futon at walmart for $90 bucks...about $60 cheaper than I'd been finding futons anywhere! Add a $25 entertainment center to the mix, plus some plastic drawer sets for dressers...I'm uber happy with my purchases this past weekend. Buying renfest tix now won't put me over my budget now...which also makes me happy

STILL in the process of cleaning my room...actually made a halfhearted effort on it this morning but bleh. The hammies get their cages cleaned tomorrow though I've got a cold, and it's wearing me down so I'm so bloody tired...but I have a ton of stuff to do before I get to move to the apt. for the school year, so I'm trying to be somewhat plucky.

Mom asked me yesterday if I was "on something"...she claimed that I've been weird lately...*shrugs* If anything, I've been tired, both from the cold and from the nagging, and annoyed with all the bickering in the house, holed up in my room with a book to escape it; however unconsciously she wants me to get out of there, it seems fairly obvious to me One thing is certain...I HAVE to get out of the house. I'll be heading to the apartment for the next 2 mondays before making my final move in 3 weeks...woot! This coming monday will be clothes day...I'll be bringing down the stuff that I don't wear at home because I'm ALWAYS in my work clothes and don't have time to dress up and go out...plus putting together the entertainment center and the new cabinet I got for the hammies.

Sims 2 Nightlife comes out on September 15! I'm thinking about preordering it...lol My life is sad

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room cleaning day...maybe

~lindalemela — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:18:40 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Humming :)
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" - Anna Nalick
Reading: Aranele An Lema - Chapter 3

so I'm supposed to clean my room today (by my own decree) because mom is finally getting her crates of STUFF out of my room...i'll be able to have room to move things around! After she moves them out, the first thing to do will be to get minion and scrat into another room...so I'll have space in the center of the floor to work on cleaning stuff. Woo...I might actually be able to live in my room again...nothing like 2 months too late...was she trying to tell me that my room'll be used for storage once I move out for good? (Answer: probably...lol)

I've been up since 4:30...couldn't sleep so I thought I'd comment on a bunch of things and work on the 3rd chapter of my story (which should be done by tomorrow *crosses fingers*)...even got to type in one of my older works...hope you find it mildly humorous I'm not even grumpy that I got up early...in fact, it feels kind of like old times again!

I mentioned two journals ago that I wanted a fanbase...a flow of people coming back for more, fanart, that kind of thing...lol...Carl has informed me that he's already my biggest fan *happy, girlish grin* and that makes me smile...*much love* I've decided, then, that I have to work, like everyone else does, to get my fanbase...not by magically wooing them with flashy pictures, but by working even harder on my stories to be worthy of people staying tuned for more chapters

I still want to go back and do the rest of my Ben Franklin virtues...a) because realistic writing in the NOW genre (which is what I shall call anything that takes place in today's society...lol) is a challenge and one that should be worth the effort...b) because it was a cool idea... All of my research for it is on my AWOL laptop harddrive...in fact, once I get that back I'll be sure to be posting more stuff on here...from pictures to text again It's amazing what one little comment can do to your self-esteem...and how much taking a break from roleplaying can make your fingers itch for the typing of new stories!

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Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two

Hard at work...or hardly working?

~lindalemela — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:35:23 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: working too hard...
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Wolfwalker (yes...AGAIN!) - Tara K. Harper

Before I launch into what I was going to...I'm gonna make an observation...just noticed this...lol...I've been a heckuva LOT happier since I started throwing myself into writing again...beadwork and stuff keeps me busy and is fun to do...but writing...therein lies my passion, I believe. And the fact that the past three days I've been a) productive at work b) generally feeling like I'm nicer to random customers and c) having an easier time of making all the random hostilities at home float away (of course, the Carlness may have something to do with that last one...he's visiting FRIDAY!)

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

I forgot to let the world know that not one, not two, but FOUR guys hit on me Friday at work...I laughed all the way home! A fifth tried to hook me up with one of those four...lol Two of them were computer guys...one of which is from tech support from our computer system here at work...the other left a video card sitting in the office for me when I got in to work yesterday. *sigh* I'm trying to figure out if it's the fact that I'm growing my hair longer or that I've been (as forementioned) really cheerful and happygolucky the past couple days (though frustrated with my mic as it won't pick up when I'm talking to Carl...so he misses the really important stuff...not even joking, it fuzzes out about 75% of the time when I say "I love you," even if I'm talking at an even tone of voice...lol ARGH!) I think the computer gurus hit on me because one of them mentioned WoW and I said that I had played it...lol Damn my friendliness! Oh, and YES, I pointedly noted that I do have a boyfriend, and one that I'm so in love with that I'm willing to move to SC just to be with him...(foresaking the 'wonderful' job I have here and leaving behind all the VIPs (volunteers in park) that spoil the crap out of me by bringing me lunch and dinner, popcorn and homemade ice cream...and I'm sure if I worked mornings they'd manage to bring me breakfast too...lol) (I'm SO uber spoiled...lol) The volunteers keep telling me how much they're going to miss my smile and goofiness...and I hope whatever job I get in the future has such awesome coworkers But I digress. *insert self-indulgant commentary* FOUR guys! Muha...four guys jealous of my sweetie...*evil grin* *end self-centeredness* I apologize...the randomness of obvious flirting NEVER happens to me...unless I'm dressed up in my gypsy costume at a renfaire (and then it's mostly leering...lmao)...so I thought it was funny. And really...I didn't quite know how to react to that attention Still debating about what to do with that vid card...I mean...it's aLOT better than the one I have...but...geez...lol

And back to the present...

I'm currently sitting here, staring at a pile of printouts that reach from the top of the desk to the bottom of the screen....and sighing...really loudly I've got 450 more addresses to type into the label program...in the next hour and a half...I have about 1,300 more to print out from the networked computer (we can only print addies out one at a time because the database doesn't have a print all option) and then all of THOSE have to go into the label program too! That'll be, I expect, my project for wednesday and thursday at work... (mostly because I don't think the boss'll be able to figure out how to print everything and relies on me to do the ubertyping because she can't spell) But hey! This project gives me time and an excuse to be online AND on the computer! Plus they say, never work your absolute hardest at work because they'll expect more from you...or something like that...

I want a fanbase too!

~lindalemela — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:21:21 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: talking to myself..
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Wolfwalker (yes...AGAIN!) - Tara K. Harper

Yep, going crazy and talking to myself today....go figure. I've got 2 more hours to work today, which has gone really...fast. Sure. I have a crapload of stuff to put into inventory, then into the computer, price, barcode, and get out on the shelves...then I have to finish taking inventory of the rest of the new items that are already in the computer. UGH! This keyboard is gross...the boss constantly spills drinks and food all over the place...constantly cleaning it up...lol

Anyway, while I'm working on the shelving stuff I've also got a major project, collecting and printing all the addresses of people here to get them together for a mailing list, and of course there's no convenient print all button...so I have to search the database, load up each individual camper for an entire zipcode and print individual addresses...I was working on it for 2 hours while the boss went shopping for all this stuff and I'm still only on G in the first zipcode. GAH! Talk about bazillions on postage! And after I'm done with all that...which should take most of the week at this rate, (note that I'm taking a break to type this and also stocking the shelves sooo...lol) I get to type them ALL up into a different program on a separate computer (the other computer lacks internet and thus an ability to copy paste to a document that would make my life easier...) so we can print up address labels. I guess in the long run though that'll be nicer than having to write them all out by hand...but oy! My typing fingers are already crying out in pain...

Also working on Aranel's story, jotting down notes and such while I work so I can hopefully have chapter 3 in tomorrow. Maybe I'll even get part of it up in scraps tonight... Sure would be nice to get what they call a 'dedicated fanbase' for my writing...people bugging me for more chapters...get one of my books published someday and whatnot... Ah...one can dream, right? I got bugged about rping on all the ones I was in and keep getting asked to come back to some of the gaia ones I left when my compy died and I decided that I needed to put my priorities straight...meh...someday...someday I'll be worthy of a fanbase...

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Mood: pondering...
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: just finished meredith ann pierce's vale trilogy!
Watching: War of the Worlds

I love the smell of campfire smoke, of logs, burning in a groundstove, a pit, crackling embers, sparks flying, dampening in the grass, drifting in white puffy clouds and pervading through the air on a fine mist, that which hovers and covers all, fills the senses and overtakes the mind on a night such as this. I relish the scent of warmth, friends, family, smores, and burned hotdogs, storytelling, and lightning bugs, those heaven-sent earthly stars and fireworks upon the grass, the scent that won't leave your clothes when you go home, lingers upon your skin, musky and faint, the night-cold restrainer - campfire smoke.

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You Are a Frappacino
At your best, you are: fun loving, sweet, and modern

At your worst, you are: childish and over indulgent

You drink coffee when: you're craving something sweet

Your caffeine addiction level: low
What Kind of Coffee Are You?

Backwards Quiz?

~lindalemela — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:30:54 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: zing!
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Son of the Summer Stars, meredith ann pierce
Watching: War of the Worlds

I suppose I'll shove this in here...and see what happens O.o

1. Reply with your name and I will write something I like about you.
2. I will then tell what song/movie/icon reminds me of you.
3. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, I'll tell you what it would be.
4. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
5. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
6. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. Put this in your journal.

Work today was boring...with a capital Zzzzz! Read a book...did some beadwork...and swept the store...that was about it! Had some old guy call me with a wrong number and he talked my ear off for ever...had the wrong state, even...lol

it for now...fam's not home so I'm heading to go exercise...woot!

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Your caffeine addiction level: low

New Story

~lindalemela — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:21:53 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: movies!
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Son of the Summer Stars, meredith ann pierce
Watching: War of the Worlds

So I'm heading out to go see War of the Worlds with my brother...and he'll probably drag his girlfriend along too...lol...used to be, no matter who he was going out with, it'd just be the two of us...now that he's allowed to drive wherever the heck he likes, no such thing (which, I might add, I was never allowed to do at his age...I was pretty much not allowed to BE social until my senior year...my first school dance being junior prom...lol...yikes!)

Anyway, posted up a new story, which isn't showing up immediately to my taste so poo! I was going to conveniently link them all together for you all, but it's not cooperating I'll have to do it later. The pics up on the graphics are from Gaia; I'll be doing my own graphics for the title once I get psp set up on my new computer! (no, it won't look as good, so get over it...)

Hope you enjoy the story...let me know what you think and send me notes for suggestions...muha I'll be working on chapter 3.........

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On Life

~lindalemela — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:30:26 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: must...not...panic
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Dark Moon, meredith ann pierce
Watching: FANTASTIC FOUR!

Trying not to go postal as I realize that my computer died and my laptop is lost to me forever. My dad is building me a 'new' computer, which will be a tower with all the basics, and I'm using a surrogate computer for now. When the laptop died, I was working feverishly to try to build the website for my roleplaying group...not sure that I'm going to do that now. It kind of bumped me out of my latent sadness about the whole deletion of entire worlds that my group had built over the past few years...and I made the ever interesting observation that computers should be a luxury rather than a lifestyle...at least for me, with so much other stuff I have to do. Plus, had I spent less time on the compy, I might have had actual bead stuff done in time for the festival at the park so i could have sold them there. But nooo...I had to be a lazy bum. So now it's back to a time when I had limited computer access, and I've once again got to make things actually happen. Without the computer I actual focused better at work, had less headaches, and actually got some beadwork done. *gasp* I have noticed though...I'm eating more, and I think it's from boredom more than anything else. I even started doing my puzzles again...and I haven't picked one of those up seriously in about 4 years...almost as long as I've been away at school. So in short I've pretty much given up the rp thing online...I'll be doing my own writing still though.

So with all these changes in mind, I'm thinking that once I get home and am done doggie sitting at Deb's house, I'll be spending about an hour a night on the computer for email, journalling, and about 15 minutes in the morning for my comics. (coh, of course, is not factored in...but I don't think I'll be able to play much until school starts up again...even then, it'll be only about 2 hours a few days a week...late night.)

Mom is on the verge of hating me, methinks. I told her I didn't think it'd be a good idea for me to go to the drum corps show in centerville tonight...because we'd have to leave at 4 and be home around 2 in the morning...and I'm doggie sitting and they HAVE to eat...I can't not feed them for a night. You'd think she'd approve because I'm doing the responsible thing again. But no, she says: "Well now my whole day is shot because you're being a bitch so I might as well go take a nap and even if we did go I don't want to be around you when you're bitchy and in a bad mood." Then she walks off and ignores me pointedly for the next 2 hours. And THEN she starts to take a nap and the phone rings and I happen to walk past her room on the way to mine and she's saying, "I don't understand why she has to be a bitch all the time." Really, I WANT to go to the show, but I have another priority that, yeah, I'm sorry, I can't get out of...I didn't even explain it mean...she's like pouting or something.

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Mood: must...not...panic
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Writing: RPG stuff
Watching: Batman Begins

Minion's Theme Song: I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Scrat's Theme Song: I'm Fat - Weird Al

While I'm crushed and somewhat devastated that none of the archives came back from the ezboard group I had, I'm now bound and determined to give it a new shot, including giving our group a new website to go along with our new forums, wherever they might be...(If anyone knows of any good forum sites we might be able to rely on, lemme know and I'll check it out!) I think it'll be better on the whole...though there are mixed ideas about whether we should try to bring back and revive some of our rps or start completely from scratch...I'd like to at least keep the one bounty hunter rp going, especially since I have some of my old posts from it saved and I'm already picturing a good start for that. I just can't see letting 2 years of running with those characters going down the drain like that...but maybe it's just me. So that'll be taking up my time for the next couple weeks...all other projects will be on standby as I attempt to get everything flowing as it should!

I have 2 projects for this summer other than the website, and they are my dragon body...finally, now that I have the wire...and a beaded wallhanging for a friend. Pictures of some of the stuff I have done in the past 2 months will be uploaded to dA as soon as I can find my camera cord...lol

Inventory is today...not looking forward to it! 8 hours of counting stuff.........*sigh*

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Jane, stop this crazy thing!

~lindalemela — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:00:29 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: must...not...panic
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Freedom's Ransom -- Ann McCaffery
Watching: Batman Begins

While I wait for the movie that I've been waiting for the producers to make ever since spiderman hit the bigscreen and I thought there might be a chance for the fantastic 4 to make a debut...I shall blog

Today I went to move my stuff into my apartment, which, by the way, isn't done yet, and now there's a prob with the water so he's fixing THAT issue, met up with Candiree for lunch at denny's and she helped me move everything I had with me and my storage bin into the apt. It was fun, good to talk with a friend in person who I haven't seen in awhile, and I'd love to do it again I miss that girl...worry about her lots...specially when crazy boys don't treat her right! Same goes for the majority of my friends, actually...lol

Basically, the apartment manager guy is going to try to see if the landlords will prorate rachel's and my bill so that we don't start until july 1...both for the fact that the first day we'd actually be able to LIVE in the place would be july 1...after he fixes the water! and because of the sheer nuisance of having to wait forbloodyever for them to get it set up (first movein date was June 6, then June 18, then the 22, then even later because he wanted to put air conditioning in...plus I got charged another month for my stupid storage bin. REALLY annoying! I know one thing's for sure, I'm not sending them another check until they tell me what the hell is going on........they haven't even cashed my first one yet; $640 is messing with my bank account statements and they've had it for 2 months already...*growl*

Movie plugging time: Go see Batman Begins...it's an amazing movie...I sat through it with my eyes bugging out and on the edge of my seat the whole time! Go see Mr. and Mrs. Smith.......it's freakin' hilarious....and go see Madagascar...though it's not as funny as I'm sure it should have been...the penguins make it worth it...

Stuff I wanna see: Fantastic FOUR! War of the Worlds! Herbie! and...Bewitched... There are prolly more on my list but I can't for the life of me remember them off the top of my head right now...so meh. If you feel like seeing a movie...local buddies...call me up...I'm up for late night showings of anything

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More? Week...of...spite...

~lindalemela — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:19:55 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: must...not...panic
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Freedom's Choice -- Ann McCaffery
Watching: Racing Stripes

Let's see...where did I leave off? Ah yes...two days ago. Well, on Thursday, I calmly and coolly dyed everything I took with me to SC pink...courtesy of my new irish skirt which I'd forgotten was in the load...it took 5 washes to get the pink out of the colors and two pairs of pants are ruined...lucky for me one of them were pj pants but unlucky that they were my favorite grumpy bear pj pants...they're purplish now Took 6 washes for all the whites to come clean...I'm running it for the last time now. And that started 2 DAYS ago. What should have been one quick wash..........*sigh*

YESTERDAY morning, Jazz, the rottweiler, got away, bolted around the side of the house and vanished. Just...gone. At that point, everything from wednesday and thursday caught up to me and I just broke down and had a good cry, called our petsitter (who doubles as my dad's secretary) and left her a voicemail in hysterics...she came over and took about 5 minutes to calm me down into some semblance of sensicalness...then said she'd go down the road to look for him, areas where there were other dogs barking, maybe he'd be among them. I went out back, calmer now, and decided to clean the pen...though perhaps I wasn't as calm as I thought since I started praying in a rather blasphemous tone, "if there is a God, let Jazz show up after I'm done cleaning this pen..." But anyway, I get done cleaning, step out, and here a single "WOOF" in that deep tone that can only be...turn around and I see a dog shadow that looked like him...so I go across the back yard and there he is, on the other side of the chainlink fence between us and the neighbors and the woodline there...with this innocent puppy face just looking for all the world like "what? What'd I do? I was running! It was fun!" Monkeytroll dog. Anyway, managed to get him through a hole in the fence and he almost got away from me AGAIN, till I finally managed to get him back in the pen. The whole enduring process spanned an hour.

After that I decided that I HAVE TO LEARN not to tell my mum everything, though I'm so compelled to tell truths in those cases that it's gonna be a hard change to make to my character (I suppose that's a good thing, that I want to tell the whole truths...but I'll have to amend to just leave things out of conversations with my mom...) She gets all pissy at me, even though I know and I've already gone through hell with something, she still yells. After I told her about Jazz she freaked and went crazy on me...started listing off all the things that could have happened and telling me that I was damn lucky...to which I replied "I know," because everything she'd listed I had already thought of that morning, having fueled my mental breakdown with it (stuff like, he could have caused an accident, he could have hurt somebody and gotten us sued, he could have hurt another animal and gotten us sued, he could have gotten killed or hurt, someone could have picked him up and stolen him, blahblah)...and the "I know," only fueled more yelling on her part, so I took it in tearyeyed silence...yeah, you prolly know the type. Or if you don't, you're thinking I'm a wuss. But ah well. I deal. And my mantra is now "1 year. 1 year."

TODAY...looked to be a good day. I got everything done this morning that I had on my 'to-do list' and got to work to find a nice pile of things to keep me busy, found out that I'll actually be getting some holiday hours on the 4th even though it's a monday, which will be nice,...

Just Breathe

~lindalemela — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:58:14 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: must...not...panic
Listening to: "Breathe (2 AM)" -- Anna Nalick
Reading: Freedom's Choice -- Ann McCaffery
Watching: Racing Stripes

"Breathe (2 AM)"

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season,"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands.
And breathe... just breathe,

In May he turned 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
"Just a day," he sat down to the flask in his fist,
"Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year."
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button, boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe... just breathe,

There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe.

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Today, I work noon to 8:30, after a helluva day yesterday...

The damage, Wednesday, starting at 7 in the morning: the toilet was broken, a coon got into mom's expensive flower protien stuff, the fish tank was leaking, the main phone line is down and now mixed up with line 2 and 3 which makes things odd, and the cats spilled an entire bottle of dish soap (a GALLON) all over the downstairs bathroom, then rolled in it, I gave them presudded baths, and then they spilled an entire huge potful of dirt from a plant all over the floor, I locked myself out of the house at one point, the rottweiler ate the sheltie's food and snarled at me, I had to call into work to tell her that there was just no way I was going to make it in (after I was already supposed to be there), managed to get a hold of my mom and tell her what had happened, got off the phone to find that one of the cats had thrown up all over, cleaned that up and Lira started hacking, got the butter, opened it, discovered it had a crack in the lid, gave her some to help her throat and Seamus promptly stuck his head in the butter tub...butter everywhere and the other 3 cats licked him off, which was amusing, I got a 12 hour flu bug or something, so was not even cool, but it didn't kick in until after I called in to work from all the other stuff...and was quite possibly brought on by all the other stuff...lol

Now working backwards from there, to adopt a technique from the newsroom:

*Tuesday I drove home to stop by my apartment on the way back...to discover that my apartment still isn't finished...which ma...

Yes, it's bananas, B, a-n-a-n-a-S!

~lindalemela — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:41:58 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: moody or moodless...
Listening to: "Suspended in Time" - Olivia Newton John, Xanadu
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Racing Stripes

Oh yeah. I've wanted to post stuff real bad, but I haven't gotten chances to do so...and this posty will prolly be updated tomorrow morning...but I'll get as much in before the boss comes back...

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WorkworkworkCARL!

~lindalemela — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:46:55 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: crazy going slowly..
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce

Yep, you guessed it, I'm a busybusy woman. I've officially got the hours I wanted right off the bat, which makes me hap-hap-happy and am fervently hoping that the family doesn't want to do a vacation this summer because they'll be a bit upset when they find out I'm not going. I can't afford to take time off this summer...especially not the usual 10 days we've been taking...because I'm taking my own 'vacation' to SC...gonna be a bridesmaid in Mike and Bambi's wedding! The dress is gorgeous...I'm very pleased...I thought it was going to be this hideous bluegreen color but instead it's a light purple...all that's left is for me to track down the seamsstress woman and have her fix it for me...I dunno what I'm going to do if I can't get ahold of her!

Apartment stuff is interesting...I'm figuring up some payments for furniture and things and found the neatest comfy chairs online for $150 each, they have storage space underneath them! Like a little toychest with a chair on top...lol...so I'm thinking...this is good. Gotta send an email to my future roomie and tell her to get us a couch, because I'm buying those chairs...really soon. Storage space = good...one chair can be used to store my bead stuff and the other random magazines or something... I'm going for the futon too...found one at the store where my bro works for $150, crappy cushion but I get 15% off because he works there....lol I figure I can sleep on that until I get a second job in the fall or spring to pay for a better mattress...or I can ask for a mattress for Christmas. Something like that. 12 days until apartment key time! The sooner the better...am fervently hoping no one has broken into my storage space and stolen things...*prays* Alicia's computer, my tv and table, shelving and all of my bedding stuff are in there...I know I have to spray everything down with bugkiller...but hopefully everything is still there to spray...lol!

I miss people. It's really weird. I think it started last summer when I was like, damn...I really wish I could just take this night off and go see a movie with Kacee or something. But this summer I'm like, damn...I really wish I was out of the house and I could go see people whenever I felt like it... As is...no dice. While I admit that the absence of the constant whining of germans is refreshing, I fear I've replaced it with the bipolarness that is my mum subconsciously trying to get me out of the house and on my own...and she HAS power...rofl

Today....today...gotta find that woman's phone number...I REALLY hope she's available...because I only have about 2 weeks or so to get the dress done! Gotta mail a couple things...will do that before work so I have time to get the package sent away safely. Then work...1:30-9:30...ugh. Busybusybusy weekend coming up. I'll indulge you with my work rant soon enough. Though not while I'm AT work...but I'll explain that also...later Much loves!

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Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce

Yep, that is what it is. I'm so uber restless because I want to be out on my own doing my own thing and not doing everyone else's things. It's as frustrating as it is disheartening and tends to make me ever so slightly grumpy to the point where I apparently answer my mother with a series of grunts and snide remarks (which...I see the grunts happening but I seriously think she just hears and interprets things I say the way she wants to interpret them) Unfortunately, there are a few obstacles standing in my way of moving out...namely, work, transportation, and money. But hey. I figure if I can get through this summer, at the very least when I move into my apartment in late August I'll be good for the year...if I have to take an extra term of school I'll be able to stay there...I won't be forced to come home for holidays therefore eliminating the need for them to be forced to come pick me up from school (forcing them to drive the looooong 2 hour trip to come get me *dramatic faint*...k *insert bitching mode*, people, if you're going to complain about having to pick me up, give me back my mode of transportation and stop letting my brother use it when he can be carpooling to work since half of his school works at the same place...and I have to go to work alone... Geez. Okay, I get that he has a job, that's cool. BUT: I didn't get to put down a payment on a car until my senior year of high school and he's a junior. YES, NEXT YEAR he'll be a senior. He makes loads more than I ever did and I'm the one with all the work put into that car. Yes, you paid more for it than I did when the initial cosigning went into effect. BUT...who paid for the new engine/new muffler system? Hm. Not Shaun!)

I'm now on my way to see STOMP! with the family, had to change my outfit three times because my mom thought "you look awful in that, how about you put on something else?" The best part about that is...I looked good all three times. Dammit again. First one was too dressy? Second one was too orange? Third one is what? Oh. She likes my shoes. So the rest of the outfit must be okay. *blows stuff up in KOTOR*

I think I'm done complaining for now...although I will be sure to add a bit of complaining about yesterday's work day tonight or tomorrow...I'll catch up with everything else sometime.

Big Project for the month: Demolition of zee bedroom which contains mom's stuff AND my stuff and a narrow walkway for me to get to my bed and squeeze into my desk with. I think that probably irks me more than anything. And as soon as I get my keys to the apartment, my stuff is all going down there.

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~lindalemela — Sat, 21 May 2005 06:33:56 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

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Mood: Grumpy.
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce

Yeah, I'm a nerd...*hums title of entry to tune of certain song from Phantom of the Opera* Let's see, I spent the last week in NJ, which was awesome, happy, and sad all at the same time. That's about all I want to go into it. Really. Thanks for all the messages while I was gone; I promise I'll get to them, the 40 journals and all 400 *grumbles* deviations that you crazy people posted...lol

Now I'm back home and wishing fervently that I was out on my own. The apartment this school year will be such a blessing, it's not even funny. My mom and I clash all the time now...I mean, we fight like normal families do, but I dunno...maybe it's borne out of a need for me to be out of the house and under my own rule, you know? Don't worry...I'll try to make sense out of what I just typed later...lol

In the meantime, I have to go buy a bra, a slip, and a pair of silver sandals to take with me to my dress fitting at the bridal shoppe (bridesmaid dress, nobody freak out...lol). Now, in order to do that, I have to go to the mall. So I'm in trouble because I'm going out to get my dress...*grumbles more* THEN I have to go to work at 3 for my yearly training session about how things work in the office; hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things fairly easily. And maybe we'll get back soon enough for mom to go to her herb show. Which she declares she won't go to now because shaun and I are 'evil, spoiled children who only care about themselves and what they want to do.' I should point out to my mom that trying on a dress for an hour is not my idea of something I WANT to do. I'm soooo sorry I'm taking care of my obligations. Sheesh...you'd think she'd be proud of me for actually taking care of things and not letting it slide by. But whatever.

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Mood: *grumble*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

...officially suck. Especially when you decided to sleep in all weekend rather than 'rehearse' the early wakingness nonsense. If someone were to ask me the standard rhetorical question beginning with "Who could possibly be dumb enough to..." my answer today would be "the same person who came up with the bloody 8:30 exam." Hands down. I'm sooooooooooooooooo tizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Edit: Yeah, done with exams, sold my books back, except for my science book. $150 worth of books for $33.50. *waves flag around* Woo. On the plus side, I can now go buy glue for a project so I can get more money...and afterwards go watch Hitchhiker's Guide...FINALLY!

Sad...my boyfriend has no internet this week *pout* I was all excited because I was done with my day early so I could come back to my room and bug him online while he was at work...but he went home early to finish moving...*more pouting* I really hope they get the phone lines turned on tonight...withdrawl...I'll have withdrawl...*sticks out bottom lip*

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And...broke.

~lindalemela — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:06:04 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: Lalalalalala
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

Yep, that's right...I now have $18.84 to my name. I have paid off my rent lease for the first month, last month, and security deposit, totalling $1280, but split between myself and my future roomie. Then I came home and promptly attempted to pay off my credit card bill, but found that I was short...so I paid off as much as possible so as to get less finance charges for next month. The plus side is that I will be getting two checks in the near future, one for a commission for $25 and one from the school for $100 (minus taxes) on the last day of classes plus I actually got the refund money from my local taxes...a whopping $8...(trust me, it matters...lol) That means...I'll have enough to pay off the remaining monies on my credit card so I'll have a clean slate and won't have to worry about the credit card for a while. YAY!

I'm working on my list for apartment stuff, which can be found here: [link] Feel free to impart your knowledge about living stuffs. I'll be updating it over the summer as I think of more things...so I'll have a going list of stuff for the apt. *squeals* I get a place of my 'own!'

Things are definitely quieter here since the one german moved out...it was dead silent last night and that just makes me smile. No more 11PM-1AM wakeup calls? *crosses fingers* It could just mean that they are waiting for exam week to start...lol

Speaking of exams: My literary criticism prof yesterday, after my asking for an extension on my paper, turned me down and said, "Instead, I'll let the class have an extension on the final until monday." I thought to myself, "Self, he's gonna make us have a takehome exam." And somewhere in the back of my mind warning lights went off. So he makes the big announcement to the class, "I will be giving you your final on wednesday to take home, it is due Monday at noon." Half the class is really excited...takehome tests mean you get to cheat! Heh...shoot me now. The next thing he said was "They give us two hours for an exam in the classroom, right? And how much time do you usually prepare for an exam? 2? 3? Well, since you're taking it home you really don't need to study. So I promise that you won't have more than 5 hours of writing for this exam." I seriously in the middle of class had a nervous twitch. Now, sometimes I'll jokingly freak out about something and actually say, "twitch" accompanied by the movement. When he said 5 hours....my head actually twitched to the side and my shoulder came up...it's funny NOW...but THEN I was like...noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooo...lol 5 HOURS OF WRITING FOR AN EXAM?

So my other 4 exams include (IE: Dea can skip this part if she wants...lol):

American Lit: A mixed test identification of terms, matching (which actually is the hardest part), identification of quotes and random lines (which is actually a quote and some questions about it...not enough just to know author and title, have to remember EVERYTHING about it from the reading), short answer, and short essay. It's not comprehensive...WOOOOO...so I'm not too worried...just have to review my notes and authors and titles of works. Downside? It's at 8:30 on a Monday morning. *twitch*

Chemistry: Completely multiple choice, which is my absolute worst medium for taking any kind of test. The bane of my existance because I second guess myself too much. I HAVE to get at least a 74% on it or I fail the class. And I think he's changing it so that it only can bring up 5% points on your grade.....

11 days...

~lindalemela — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:16:01 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: One German Less Day!
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

...and I'm outta here! I have 3 days of classes, including today. (and Tuesday I don't have class!) Just one last paper to write, one of the germans moved out today...yay! More later

We're paying off the lease tonight...woot!

So, what do people buy when they buy stuff to furnish a new place? Completely furnish, mind you...we'll have a fridge and a stove, cabinets in the kitchen, two big hanging stuff closets and one storage closet...and we have carpet. I get the tiny room...about half the size of my room right now...and she gets the room that's bigger than the living room (but I get to store a bunch of my junk in there so that's fun). I already know I have to go about buying a new box spring and mattress (because I definitely don't want a used one...lol...blech)...I'm bringing my big lamp from home...plus my beanbag, a bookshelf, my video/dvd shelf, and my desk. Now...I gotta figure out what else I'll be needing to survive We do have a huge living room...and I'll be having a coffeetable from home and possibly one of the big round wicker chairs...So I gotta get together a massive shopping list of things I should get this summer.

A couple things I've been pondering...rather than the box spring and mattress, I could revive my old loft from my freshman year of college, which would give me a ton more space plus I could fit my desk underneath...I could invest in a couch with a pullout bed, which would give me space...but cost more money...

So...post your thoughts and feel free to add to the list...lol

THE IN THE WORKS LIST: (yes, this is for shopping purposes come August...lol...I'm a big dork) (!=have and bringing. ?=don't have, thinking about one of us buying. $=need to buy. #=Rachel has and is bringing. @=Rachel is buying.) Some way later date I'll do a cleaning supply and foodstuffs shopping list...lol

Bathroom:
Plunger ($)
Toilet Brush ($)
Cleaning Supplies ($)
Toilet Paper (!)
Shower Curtain (!)
Shower Spray (!)
Hand Soap (!)
Hand Towel (#)
Bathroom Mat ($)
Towel Rack for over the door (!)

Kitchen:
Paper Towel Rack (!)
Paper Towels (!)
Microwave (#)
Ice Cube Trays (!#)
Dinnerware: plates, bowls, cups, mugs, forks, spoons, knives (!#)
Cookware: pots, pans, bowls, utensils, etc. (!)
Quesadilla Maker: WOOT! (!)
Blender (?)
Brita Pitcher and Filters (!#)
Crockpot (@ even though I'll be the one cooking with it)
Dish cleaning stuff: soap, sponges, scrubber, drying rags (#!)
Ice Cream Maker ($...hey, it's $8...and I just got that back from local taxes!)
Baking Soda (#)
Trash Can ($ or @)
Trash Bags (whoever buys can)
Table (@ or $...we haven't decided yet)
3 chairs (another @ or $ tossup)
Mitts/potholders (!)
Timer (?)
Toaster (?)
Smoke detector ($...don't remember seeing one, in any case, need a 2nd)

Living Room:
(Later) Couch (probably @)
Wicker Chair (only if I'm able to nab this one from home)
Coffee Table (!)
Tv (!##...if she can get her second tv from home, I don't need mine)
Big bookshelves (! thanks to my Carl...hehe...tv is going on them too)
Dvd player/vcr (#)
Beanbag (!)<...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

~lindalemela — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:04:24 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: HAPPY GEORGIA TIME!
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

Is time for GEORGIA RENFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be gone the whole weekend...on a road trip with my Candaree (who has admitted that she really doesn't know how to spell her own nickname, as variations abound...Canderee, Candiree, etc. I choose Candaree because it's pronounced: Can-DUH-reeeee )

I will get to see my boyfriend (of a year and 5 days today) and some fun georgia renfest time I'll be posting when I get back!

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Future Apartment...

~lindalemela — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:51:57 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: *no time to ponder*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

Well...good news and bad news. The good news is, yesterday my future roomie Rachel, who is current roomie with my best friend, called the lady we've been trying to get to rent an apartment from...and she said she had a spot for us! All we have to do is find a time and come down there to meet with her. *scratches chin* Easier said than done. Since she's so rarely home, we're going to find a time to call her (at the moment we're aiming to meet her in two weeks) and set up an appointment to make sure she's there...rofl

Apparently we have two choices of apartments, one on the bottom across from Matt and Julie's and one on the top on the other side from Matt and Julie's. I think we're going for the bottom one. It's a double-edged sword...If we're on the top we won't have to worry about people stomping down on our heads, but we'll have to worry about how much noise we make and I won't be able to exercise without worrying about the floor creaking. If we live on the bottom, we'll be free to walk as we please and bounce around to exercise music, but we'll have to deal with whoever is above us if they have no consideration for anyone else. I think I'd rather live on the bottom...just so I don't have to worry about when I vacuum, when I do tae-bo, or if my walking around will bother someone else.

Now, the bad news. In the initial phonecall, it sounded as if we had to pay $400 when we signed the lease, and then $800 (first and last month's rent) June 1st (the first month of our lease). Instead........we have to come up with the whole thing for when we sign the lease. Which meeeeans...that's right...a grand whopping total of $1200! We're splitting it, of course, so we each need $600...I thought I had way more than I really do. I've got $300...and I need to come up with the other half in two weeks. I've got a few options, one of which includes borrowing money from everyone I know and paying them all back over the summer...I really don't want to do that option because I hate being in debt (I'm already in debt to the credit card for $400 still...paying that off little by little...but the interest...gah...it's like I don't pay ANYTHING off) My only consolation is that in 2 months I'll be able to work to make actual money...and I'll also have use of the car (though I won't be able to take it back to school with me). I have a couple thoughts about some work opportunities within walking distance of the apartments but I'm not sure that any will pan out...and if they DON'T...despite what my dad seems to think at the moment I WILL need a car, and I WILL be buying whatever my spare change can afford so I can get to a job in one of the nearby towns.

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Mood: *happier sah?*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

This letter was CCed to me from the lady at resident life...and sent to the german professor here:

Hi-
I am writing to you with concerns about the German house and the way it is functioning this semester. I have attempted to work with the students in this house. We had one house meeting, and were going to attempt to have another one. However, I was at a conference out of town and just returned
late last night. Here is a timeline of the issues:
At the beginning of this semester, Sarah came to me with concerns over various issues- Signs getting ripped down, the heat being put up extremely high, the residents not getting along in general. We had a meeting, and Sarah expressed what her concerns were, as did a few other residents. I
didn't hear back from them for a few weeks, and then a few other students came to see me. They were frustrated because they felt that since that original meeting, Sarah and Kristina were not speaking with any of the other residents, and no chores were being done by Sarah and Kristina. Sarah was not helping with the German House Open house and some other issues. I then spoke with Sarah and she said that she would speak with people who were not doing their chores, and that things were fine with the OPen House. Also was the concerns that she was "snubbing" the housemates- not saying hello to them, and even ignoring them when they tried to speak with her. She denies this, and says that the residents
don't speak to her either.

A few weeks later, the same residents came to me again saying that the kitchen was supposed to have been cleaned by Christina and Sarah after the German Open House because they had done nothing else to help for the Open
House. However, it was over a week later and the kitchen still had not been cleaned. I spoke with Sarah again, and she assured me it would be cleaned. It is my understanding that they did clean it somewhat, but that some pots were not washed and other residents ended up doing them because
they smelled.

I am writing to you for assistance in dealing with this situation. I have tried speaking to the individuals, and it has not seemed to help. We have also offered the students with concerns the option to move. COuld we work together to resolve these issues? Thank you....
Kerry

Instead of bitching about every single statement that the other housemates made that are not true in any form, I give you...My response letter...which I consider haphazardly quasiprofessional but still am very proud of the fact that I didn't swear a single time:

Kerry,

Thank you for forwarding this to me, and thank you for bringing it to FJ's attention. I brought the issues of the beginning of the semester to him but he told me that there really was nothing he could do, which was why I brought the issues to you in the first place.
For my own part, I am extremely disappointed in the behavior of three of my housemates in particular, given that they come running up the stairs screaming that "the house manager is a bitch" and chanting that "the house manager is a bastard" when I'm in my room only five feet away. I chose to ignore every insult and shirking of chores at first because it became easier for me to do the chores myself rather than to continually harp on people to do them and getting instant rebuttals as well as refusals to do chores because of too much to do. I have never NOT done my chores.
There is a continue to choose to ignore these standing issues because as of two weeks ago I had enough of th...

Calmer Sah

~lindalemela — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:40:16 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: *happier sah?*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

So Monday and Tuesday I was not doing hot on the sugar scale...I ate way too much sugar before bed sunday night and it's still kicking me in the butt. Monday I got out of bed...faceplanted the floor and decided it wasn't my day. Tuesday morning there was no stopping the room from spinning so I concentrated on getting my blood sugar level normal...I think it's working...but it'll probably take this whole week for me to feel good when I get up. So it's no surprise really that I couldn't make my makeup lab this morning at 8...I couldn't open my eyes much less crawl out of bed. This hasn't happened since last spring...I've been pretty good about making sure I'm healthy and eating stuff that won't knock me out in the morning. I gotta watch what I'm doing closely now...*kicks self for stupidity*

Today...I have to do a ton of stuff...since I decided to boycott germans today I'm skipping out on my german cinema and going to chemistry lab instead...the second one is at 12:30, rather than the first 8 am sunshine class I'll be going to the newspaper office afterwards to do all of my readings for next week and some studying for the test on Monday. That'll take a while...and at 7:30 I'll be going to Kacee's music theater performance so I can console her for having to wear a bright pink flapper dress in the finale...*ducks* I'll be coming straight home after that.

I got my next commission and I'm working diligently on it. It involves making lots of little letters that are quite tedious because the wire I'm working with is too big. In the end, it'll be put on a plaque and I'll have to make two little figurines for the top of it, adding some little extras in here and there. I think I'll get all the letters done today, but the figurines will take this weekend to do.

The rest of my semester in a glance:
8-beading, starting LS paper, write german paper and do german discussion both for cinema class, speak to someone, anyone, about my tax problem...lol
9-music theater again at 7:30, study for chem exam, go to a 9 AM SAI test for the membersintraining to pass and be initiated, work on LS paper.
10-do a writeup for my english honorary for ideas for next year, cleanup the house after the party, buy chili ingredients and a slowcooker, and study for my AL and chem exams.
11-chem exam, work, 7:30 english honorary inductions and meeting about things we want to do next semester
12-work, some extra chem work, 6 pm chili cookoff...w00t!...
13-AL exam, work, movie preview for german cinema
14-write german paper and do german discussions, SAI meeting 7pm, readings for following week, finish plaques.
15-leave for RENFEST
16-RENFEST
17-RENFEST, driving back home
18-work, 7:30 presentation, english department
19-work all night XP, start AL paper
20-work, german movie preview, readings.
21-write AL paper, readings, write german paper and german discussions
22-finish AL paper, work on LS paper, concert 7:30
23-work on LS paper, concert 7:30
24-finish LS paper, concerts 3:00 and 7:30
25-work, english honorary meeting, turn in AL paper
26-work all night, start studying for finals...namely chem
27-work, final exam review day, turn in LS paper, study for exams
28-studystudystudy
29-exam for LS 8:30 AM, study for chem, concert 7:30 pm
30-study for chem, AL, and comp sci, concert 7:30
1-concert 3, SAI initiation, study for g...

*ninjasneak deux*

~lindalemela — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:09:19 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: *grumble*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

*insert longwinded, rambling rant full of swearing, which probably should be rated something really high and will be off the front of my page this evening...honestly, don't read it if you don't like the swearingness...lol I do need to point out that when I say something bad about a german or germans, I'm speaking specifically about the three that live in my house. Last year's german TA was AWESOME and I heart Marlene...but she liked friends and was social...These three don't hang out with anyone but themselves and occasionally other international students. I believe that is part of the problem. In previous years, we've only had one transfer student from germany, one from france, and one from spain. This year we've got many from each country, and while the school is excited about boosting its counts, it really is detrimental to them. Instead of wanting to be immersed, like Marlene was, or Karl the year before, (with a history of cool TAs, how was I to know that the german exchange students they would get this year would be so bad?) they spend their time being antisocial. Although, given the amount of times they've called me rude to my face and behind my back, I wouldn't want to be their friends anyway. I tried last semester. It backfired. There's three weeks left. Deal with it.*

OMFG! My disgust with my housemates has seriously grown more solid over the past few weeks that I haven't posted. Mostly I haven't posted because I'd be saying the same fucking thing every single time. The Monday before the last house party I hung signs on the door asking everyone to do their chores before the party as WELL as doing something to help for the party. (we have a separate list of things that need to get done for that.) Kathrin automatically looked at it and looks at me and says, "See, here's the thing, we're going to walmart and doing all the cooking, so someone else needs to cover our chores." They later leave a sign on my door reading something to the effect of "We're going to walmart and doing all the cooking. We need YOU to arrange people to setup, decorate, cook the brats, and clean up after the party." My question at the time was, doing all the cooking? It doesn't take 5 fucking people to boil cabbage! Why are you asking someone ELSE to cook the brats? That now makes 6 people doing all the cooking. Scott informed me yesterday that he was really upset because they made him cook brats for so long that he wasn't able to leave to go to a program that he needed for extra credit. This is the prof's fault, he didn't get the charcoal to him in time. I told Scott he should have left anyway but he was like, "no, no one cared; they would have let the house burn down because they wouldn't be paying attention."

The event that occurred with the last house meeting included Anne screaming: "THE HOUSE MANAGER'S A BITCH!" and them bitching about me not being there yet (this was at 4:30, a time that they were always complaining about me scheduling the meetings for so I moved it back to 5) and Andrew and Stephan started a chant: "The house manager's a bastard" over and over again.

The night we had done the dishes, Kris and I decided to listen to the music while washing dishes...it was country and apparently the german housemates don't like country...Anne came out of her room and turned it down, so Kris turned it back up because we couldn't hear it anymore, and Stephan came down and turned it ALL the way down then went back upstairs. Of all of the things that they have said that I have done that were rude...that evening is o...

*ninja sneak*

~lindalemela — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:53:44 PDT
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: *grumble*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: 21 Jump Street Season 2

(too lazy to do Elvish date)

Today is another day. w00t. Uhm...I have to go to work...so I'll finish this when I get done with classes today...lots of stuff to talk 'bout. OMG...Dea, this is like, the shortest journal ever...

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Attack of the Ebil Housemates

~lindalemela — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:23:03 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

Accepting Commissions!!

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Mood: *grumble*
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Enough

Busy busy day ahead of me...I have a paper to write that's due by 5 that I'll be doing AFTER 5...two more german discussion posts to make...class...lunch...class...meeting for work...the meeting to see if we get our english house, which is an interview and I don't have a voice...then I'll be coming back here to finish my german stuff...then dinner...then a poetry reading at 7...then back here around 9 or 10.

Caution, swearing ahead:
Speaking of germans. I hung up letters on everyone's door asking politely if everyone could do their chore for the week today or tomorrow morning so that the house would look nice for our open house tomorrow. As I was hanging one on Kathrin's door, she opened it, and while I was hanging another on the door across the hall, she was reading it. When I turned around, she goes, "See, here's the thing. We don't have time to do chores because we have to go to wal-mart." So I responded with, "That's fine, that's why I put today or tomorrow morning before the open house." (which is at 6 in the afternoon) and I get: "We'll be cooking. So it'll be nice if everyone else would do the chores because we'll be putting so much time into cooking." Then she walked away, leaving me staring at her back in utter disbelief. The "we" exempts all 3 of the germans, the chinese girl, and probably the one jackass american guy in the house as well, who won't do anything but will get his butt covered because gee, the assholes have to stick together. Which leaves the other half of the house, exactly, to not only pull the choreload, but to help with the party as well. Buuuuuullshit. I've been cleaning the house every week...I want to know what their excuse is for all those times. Certainly not cooking. The only time they bother to clean is if one of their friends is coming over. It was a very polite letter (no wait, I forgot, everything I do is rude) and I'm pissed that the evil people in the house came to a solution to get them out of the chores so neatly. Sure, it's my fault I don't have a car so I can't go buy your supplies for you, and I should be punished by doing your chores as well as my own. I guess I really shouldn't be upset...it's what I do every week, right? I should be used to being shit on by now. My only consolation is that we have one month-ish left of school, so I can be done with them after this and I'll never see them again. Plus, if we get the house, which we should find out this week, my new housemates are SO COOL!
end swearing.

Time for me to get to the shower and start my busy day

Fast Edit: (Because a) I'm lazy and b) I'm really short on time)

lindalemela: when I got back from lunch there was a note on my wipeoff board saying that they needed me to arrange to have people set up the party, do decorations, clean up afterwards, and grill sausages
lindalemela: now...my question is...if you're going to be doing all the cooking
lindalemela: and you still need someone to grill sausages...
lindalemela: then what the hell are you going to be cooking?!
lindalemela: it doesn't take FIVE FUCKING people to boil cabbage!

AND

I got both chief copy editor and news editor for next semester's newspaper staff!!! w00t!

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Sarah's Weekend madness...

~lindalemela — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:28:00 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Mood: Beadaholic
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Stepford Wives

So the reason I posted the commission thing [link] earlier was because I had finally finished my german homework. I just finished something for american lit...and am now starting my uber scary long literary criticism paper. It's all about defending poetry...and the poet we have to defend is Sylvia Plath. I hate Sylvia Plath's poetry...so this should be interesting...I have to not only pretend to like it...but write at least 5 pages about how it ISN'T too complex for the reader and it ISN'T too obscure/unimportant...that sort of thing. *sigh* Wish me luck...I need to have it finished by tonight!

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Commission Infos

~lindalemela — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:45:29 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Mood: Beadaholic
Listening to: Numa Numa...heheheheh...
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Stepford Wives

((I'll be setting up a website sometime within the next 3 months with official set prices for items that I get requests to make a lot of. I'm working on display pieces and trying to get good photos of them for advertisement purposes. For the time being, however, I've decided to go ahead and make a listing of prices that I can continually update and that I'm sticking with for a bit and offer to all my dA homies my "mad skillz." Whew. I'm done.))

My typical cost per hour (of slaving over a beaded project) is $3. This is only for seed beads; if there are additional materials desired then the price is higher. Everything I do is, of course, negotiable on price. For the time being, shipping on packages which are just beadwork (not journals or something heavier than my roses) is $1. So by adding a dollar to each of the prices below (except where noted) you can find your total cost.

Thus, here is a list of some of the items that I have examples for right now on dA:

*Beaded Roses: $9 for small, $15 for large, any colors and 2 or 3 leaves. [link] [link]

*Beaded animals: $5-$10 depending on design and size. These can be made into pins at your leisure or I can affix them to something else if you would like. (see penguin [link] and giraffe [link] for examples)

*Earring sets: $10-$20 depending on the earring hook and complexity of design. (see froggies [link] for example. Does not include the pin, just the two earrings.)

*Flower Pixies/Faeries: $12 for one without wings, $15 for one with wings. [link]

**Journal covers/Journals: $20-$45 based on two things: my $3 an hour rate and whether or not you want the journal included with the cover. This price is easily negotiable. (Kacee's Eastern Dragon journal [link] would have cost $45...$36 for the beadwork alone...but as I said...I'm very easy to work with and negotiating is not a problem.)

There is nearly no limit to things I can bead if asked to do so, from picture frames to wall hangings, so ask if you are curious. I can work with premade patterns or, as I often do, I can make up patterns for a project. Just ask!

PS: I'll be using Paypal for direct requests, but I could be persuaded to do an art trade...hehe

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Post Patty's Day Pronounciations

~lindalemela — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:02:18 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Listening to: "Remember" - Josh Groban (from Troy)
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Enough

And the count is: 5 raspberry smirnoff twists, half a bottle of irish red, and most of a shot of Jack's. Was pleasantly buzzed/drunk and able to keep intelligent conversation all night long. It was a ton of fun hanging out with Kacee and Candice and Matt and Mel...just good, wholesome fun. Boondock Saints in English with Spanish subtitles, Matt translating, and us drinking whenever he translated the word that is repeated most often in the movie....... :)" title=">:) (Devil)" /> That's all I gotta say The only adverse effect I had today was that my throat is now all kinds of ouch and I think I let my immune system down long enough while drinking to let the cold that's been threatening to hit me come in...so I'm stuffy and coughing. Gonna drown myself in tea and water until it gets hydrated enough to not be so dry and ucky. But I'm still in hyper happy sarah mode!

My smirnoff is gone and I still have a ton of irish red left...which I'm not sure if I want to drink or not because (ever since last semester's bad party) I usually have to drink something before beer...just so I don't have to taste beer going down, although killian's is my favorite.

Tonight is an SAI sleepover...I'm going over to play hide an active and then to watch Sleepover and the Stepford Wives with Kacee. Hopefully.

This weekend I have two huge papers to write, a German discussion to do, and I'm planning on doing them all day Saturday so I have the evening free. Wish my procrastination self luck.
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Okay, going to post a separate journal tomorrow (after I get my homework done) about my commissions. Been getting some notes, and I know I've been slack about putting up the list. I was going to pick up my homepage editing program at home but I didn't so I have a random Web page that I can't edit...lol Anyways...I'm thinking about either opening an Ebay store or just a basic webpage with my rates and everything. I'm working on some display pieces too. Anyway. The post will have my prices and everything on it...it'll be my pre-webpage advertisement.

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Happy St. Pat's!

~lindalemela — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:22:08 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Listening to: "Remember" - Josh Groban (from Troy)
Reading: Birth of the Firebringer - Meredith Ann Pierce
Watching: Enough

Stardate.Alduya.Sulime.17.2005.

Happy Irish Day! Tis the day where Americans everywhere drink green beer and most Americans with any Irish in their blood eat potatoes and corned beef and cabbage and the REAL Irish people DON'T. *cheeky grin* I'm sporting my new Old Navy shirt which reads: Ale Stars...in a sporty type logo with a shamrock on it. Score. Perhaps tonight I shall feel inspired to go drinking after our meeting at SAI...I have my new license and I'm feeling kind of thirsty

Quick rundown of the past two weeks so we can get on with our lives:

~Spring Break: Got nothing done. Nothing. Oh...I gained a couple levels on City of Heroes...but other than that...*growls* I can't concentrate on anything when I'm at home and have people yelling at me...and if I try to hide in my room to stay out their way to avoid being yelled at it just makes it worse. So...*shrug* I saw Robots and The Pacifier over break...both were pretty good and had some freakin' hilarious moments. (You know how they say the people you see it with make the movie? I might have thought better of both and been less pessimistic had I gone to see it with someone else...I know that sounds bitchy...but with both I had to go stake out seats and mom bitched at me both times for the ones I had picked out...and whispered across two-three seats at me...if you're sitting by me I don't mind too terribly much...but A) not every two seconds and B) not so freaking loud. When we went to see the pacifier I had moved in 5 seats so I wasn't sitting in front of this little girl...and she yelled at me to move over rather than having everyone move in another seat to let liam, who is...much shorter than me...sit in front of the little girl...and then dad made me move over in front of the poor kid. There's a certain courtesy that goes with watching a movie and when they complain about people being rude when they themselves have been...that makes me upset. But moving on...sorry Dea, this was supposed to be a short list...)

~English program house - We finally got the 6 people that we need in order to be able to have this house...I'm writing up the proposal, the whole department is behind us, and the organizations in the department have our backs financially. The meetings go down next week and I should find out after Easter break if we get the house or not. *crosses fingers*

~Easter break - Yes, I've decided to go home for easter break ...but only for 4 reasons:
1) To deposit some money into my bank account
2) To pick up my beads that I ordered from Ebay
3) To decorate eggs with Liam
4) and To finish up a certain 1 year scrapbook which is nearly done.

Yesterday I was nominated and accepted for president for next year's english honorary...I now have a binder of stuff that I have to haul around with me and will be spending the summer familiarizing myself with alot of it. I'm really excited...the most I hoped for was secretary...but with great power comes great responsibility...if I'm president AND house manager for the english house...whew...that's gonna rock my socks off.

Did prelim scheduling...official schedules get done on the 30th...I have to register online that evening. I'll be done by lunch every day of the week...leaving me plenty of time in the evenings for homework and work itself. And I'm going to be busy with work...between writing an article a week and hopefully holding two major positions on the newspaper staff...people should be willing to hire me after seeing my new shiny credentials, right? *crosses fingers*

Tuesday I discovered I had a D in chemistry...I've never had a D before...and I never even had a B in high school...much l...

Run from the posting of many deviations...

~lindalemela — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:23:24 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due over the weekend) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Listening to: "Because" - The Beatles
Reading: "Dragon Rider" - Cornelia Funk
Watching: "Stargate: Atlantis"

Vast apology for the few persons who watch me and were just flooded out of their deviantArt accounts by my crazy picture posting just now...lol I have no idea how many there were...and I had no idea there even WERE that many...lol In any case, you don't want to miss the Indecision series if you watch me for kitty pictures...because they are cute...and they tell a brief story if you follow them in order.

I'm on break, thankfully, away from the stress of school, happily, and home with a whole new kind of stress. Apparently no matter what I say or do, my mood comes across to my mother as being sulky, lazy, bitchy, angry, and not wanting to listen to anything she has to say. Personally, I think she's just paranoid...or perhaps trained from dealing with dad so much that she takes everything that way, no matter what...hell...I laughed the other day and she thought I was angry...so who knows. Anyway, I was only fooling myself when I thought I would get a whole ton of craft stuff done this week...I don't know WHAT I was thinking. No one can get anything done around here with all the yelling and the screaming. Perhaps she interprets my attitude as such because the yelling doesn't phase me anymore? But I digress. I have gotten the prelim work done for my dice bag, the pattern drawn up, the bag stretched on the sewing rings and the colors all picked out...it's just a matter of a good uninterrupted hour...which I won't find.

Things I should be doing or working on but I can't (and not because of my own will...as I am at the whim and schedules of others):

My German 3 page paper...(due at 5...yesterday...again, not going to do it...will just take the C)
German discussion group...(already locked so I can't do it)
My 5 page Literary Criticism Paper (Thursday ALL DAY)
Dice bag w/ dragon in coffee mug...(ready to bead)
Dice bag w/ dragon and spider...(working on pattern)
My computer lab (due friday, prolly will do today)
Small bag with cat beaded on it (not ready)
Scrapbook (yeah...like I'm going to get a chance to do this...but I'm gonna try anyway...lol)
Another attempt at a peyote stitch amulet bag...(have pattern)
Drycleaning my renfest stuff/Pick out outfit for Georgia
Present for Carl...^_^
Necklace and bracelet series with odds and ends coins...

And...that's it....that's all I'd like to do...*sigh* Ah well...at least I get to talk to Carl every night...keeps me sane!

EDIT: I just found out that I can't spend all day thursday on my paper so it'll have to wait until friday for me to tackle it since I have to go volunteer at liam's school. I have a very bad headache and I think the world just went nuclear...I've been sitting here doing my computer lab for the past several hours and they've done nothing but complain at each other about my laziness...right outside my door. Coincidence? I think not. Yes folks, there's a reason why I'm on my computer this long...to do homework. For school. So I don't end up getting my scholarship ripped out from under me. So you don't like it...I have legs...and I walk very well. I wasn't mad before...but now I am. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

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Mood: Philosophical
Listening to: "Because" - The Beatles
Reading: "The Elvenbane" - Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey
Watching: "The Last Starfighter"

~RAMBLINGS~
(PS: Okay, Dea...if you MUST skip something...you can skip this longwinded blogtype ponderish stuff)

So after close scrutiny of the ice/slush covered sidewalks on my campus for the past two days, I realized that there was a lesson to be learned there. Not just the common sense, duh, don't walk on the ice bit, but some other, deeper, completely philosophical nonsense to explore. And explore I shall. "Don't merely follow someone else's footsteps. Make your own."

O.o Deep, right? The basis behind it is equally profound: if you follow in someone's footsteps, chances are you'll slip and fall on the spot they've made. You can get close to perfectly in line with their steps, but it is better to dig your own way through the snow than to fall trying to reach where they already have. In the real world, you can't follow exactly in someone's stead. You have to get by on your own merits. If you fail (or fall) trying to tread exactly where they have, you could be laughed at, snubbed, and ultimately wounded. The moral of the story? Don't try to fit into the shell of someone else's sole. Be original. Be different, however slight. Be yourself!

~MUSIC~

I'M DONE WITH THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT!!!!!!!!! *does ecstatic happyhappyjoyjoyhappy dance* I finally (after 5 weeks of them delaying the inevitable) got to sing my last solo performance dictated by the music department (solidifying my minor in vocal concentration) and I'm stoked to have that lingering stress molecule gone from my every waking hour. Now I can focus on things that really matter, like my family, friends, my professional career goals, crafting, and oh yeah...schoolwork. Not too shabby. The performance sounded good to me, I thought the emotion was where it needed to be, and I sang the German words better than I had in rehearsals and exactly as she told me how to pronounce them...

*insert brief rant which Dea can skip since it'll be too long to read... *...and my (EX!) vocal instructor had this to say: "There were a lot of problems, your german diction had some serious flaws, you didn't take it slow enough, the emotion wasn't there, but it's excusable and understandable because you haven't taken lessons this semester and you are out of practice." Excuse me? She gave me corrections 5 minutes before the performance and I fixed every single thing. Had they bothered to bring the video camera like they usually do (I gather because it was snowing they didn't have it there) I could have pointed out exactly what she told me to fix and exactly where I did, in fact, fix it. If there were other things happening, she certainly didn't clue me in beforehand. As far as the emotion is concerned, yes, it's a sad song. I think I managed to pull that off...considering that there were several 16th note sections and she thought that they were too happy. They're 16th notes! They're supposed to be faster than 8th notes! No, I haven't taken lessons this semester, and if that's a way to tell me that I might have gotten a better grade had I been taking lessons at the time: Not gonna happen. As far as practicing goes...I got plenty of practice on it. I may not have gone to an official practice room...but I have a single now and I can sing quite well on my own, thank you. No, I'm not in choir anymore. That doesn't mean I don't still sing everyday, if only for my own amusement. Nor do I intend to return to choir, given my previous director's (who is on sabatical and will be returning in the fall) comments about it...

Wasted Day

~lindalemela — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:18:39 PST
Quenya, loose Elvish translation:
Lindale: Noun: Music
Mela: Verb: To Love
LindaleMela: Music Lover

Don't forget to do full views on ALL of my deviations and scraps!

My "To-Do" list is located on my shoutboard in my Journal section. I try to keep it updated, and definitely update Friday after class (so I know what homework is due) Go see if you're curious about upcoming dA projects!

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Reading: "The Elvenbane" - Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey

Totally wasted an entire 12 hour day doing nothing but staring at my computer and willing some GOOD roleplaying to fall into my lap. Wandered around Furcadia for 8 hours...during that time I found someone who was willing to give me a tour of the main maps as well as the 'hotspots' for 2 hours...then I discovered that I can't load the custom maps unless it's 3 am and no one is on campus. I'm really looking forward to going home on friday to a good connection...maybe I'll try it then. I really don't think anyone can comprehend how badly I wanted to RP today...not forum play, mind you, not tabletop either. Good oldschool MMORPG. Star Wars Galaxy/Nexus TK/MUDD type playstyle with instant feedback, custom emoticons and an interesting playing environment. Instead...I got to tour an interesting playing environment but couldn't get into the areas where more advanced roleplayers hung out because what? Oh yeah! OUR SCHOOL SUCKS. Kacee asked me to go to a movie with her but I decided against it...in favor of reading a book while futilely trying to load scenarios in Furcadia. I'm really good with textbased stuff...but everyone on the Mudds and stuff I logged into today were so immature that I couldn't understand why they were there...if not for the sole purpose of pissing me off. I miss good online roleplay. I miss people who would create a character and then take on the persona of that character overtly...and then send private messages in out of character responses. I try to go back to Mudds that I used to play only to find that they have changed...not for the better either. It's disappointing, sad, and I just want to curl up in a lonely little ball because there's no one around for me to communicate with on the weekends. Kacee has WoW, Carl has COH, everyone else goes home or makes plans...and I sit here, weekend after weekend, with my viewing of the sad lack of compentant roleplayers online. In retrospect, probably should have gone with Kacee to the movie to get me out of this funk...but I think I'll blame my lack of wanting to go on my stubborn disbelief about how sad and pitiful one of my past creative outlets has become.

That said...if you're involved in a decent group that roleplays at a certain time (for instant feedback purposes on forums or just MUDDs or MUSHes...or even if you're on Furcadia...if it doesn't load late at night I can definitely play next week...and then during the summer lol...it's a really great game with nice graphics...but lacking the roleplaying experience I'd hoped for at the moment...I'm not giving up yet...lol) lemme know. When I'm in the mood for an online roleplay with nowhere to go...it makes me sad.

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