Another Blog...Really?

No, not really. I don't plan on using it. I swear. I made a blog at Posterous (this one is mine: http://gotnothin.posterous.com/) to see what it was like. The layout of mine is apparently the only one available. I really like it though. It's very clean and neat. It's something I may emmulate when I finally redesign Excited-Geek again (which hopefully will be soon).

Well, I have to work tomorrow, though I'm not sure when. So I'm gonna check my schedule and turn in for the night (or do some of the reading for my class at least).

The 12 Days of Christmas

I thought I'd posted this video weeks ago when I heard the song for the first time, but apparently not.

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Psych, Leverage and Dollhouse

I tried to find Psych on USA's website and also on Hulu last night. Then I finally gave up waiting and found it through surf the channel. The episode was spectacular. I spent the entire episode with my heart thumping wildy, eyes glued to the screen. The second time through I didn't the same rush, but it's still one of my favorite episodes of television ever. Everything about it is spot on. The writing is great. The acting rips your heart out in a totally good way. James Roday just nailed EVERYTHING. I've watched it two and a half times, and I cannot find any faults in his performance. It's a very good episode and a good season finale. I think as a season finale they could have easily gone for a cliffhanger like every other show that's on the television does, but they didn't and it was more surprising than seeing what they could have tried to think up for a new exciting cliffhanger. I think this non-cliffhanger works as a season finale. It leaves the viewer angsting with the characters and just glad that everyone's alright, and also a little off balance wondering what will happen next season (if there is a next season, I'm not sure if that's been announced. I hope so. I really enjoy this show).

I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse tonight. I like it...a lot. It's cool to see Eliza Dushku on the television again because she really can do anything, and this is a great role for her to show off how versatile she is as an actress. It's a cool concept and the first two episodes grabbed me in a way I really wasn't expecting. I'm a little afraid that Fox is going to kill this show like it did to Firefly. Only two episodes so far and I don't want it to go.

I'm catching up on Leverage. I watched the first three episodes when they aired and then missed everything after that. I've watched the fourth episode now and I'm working on the fifth. I really like how intelligent this show is. But at the same time it's still a lot of fun.

It Worked.

It actually worked. After I finished writing that post I ended the emo time and had a great time at Ryan's Dr. Horrible Pot Luck. I discovered that there are Wiccan subtitles on the Dr. Horrible DVD. They're not very substantial, though we didn't watch them all, only like five minutes.

I Hate Being Down

I'm feeling really down right now, and it sucks. I hate feeling like this. Tonight is my last night visiting here and I want it to be awesome. But instead I feel like I'm about to cry.

So I am declaring that now is the end of emo time. As Barney Stinson said, "When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story." Yeah. That's how I'm rollin'. Now I am awesome...because I say so.

In the 802.

So, now I'm out of the 207 and back in the 802. I missed it so much here. I'm staying with my friends in room 607. Two of them are Melissa and Carissa (formerly the 303 girlz, though I haven't changed the tag here. I like it as it is). We're hanging out and watching Chuck. I'm shadowing Mo in E-Commerce tomorrow morning, so I should get to sleep pretty soon. I just don't want to go to bed yet. I want to stay up and spend as much time with the girls in 607 and my other friends here as I possibly can.

Oh Man! I Love This Story!!

I managed to knock my summerwrite story down to 44 pages. I'e just finished printing it and I need to go through and put page numbers in. I forgot to but them on before printing, so I'll just write them on. I skimmed itas I went through and fixed all the indents. And oh man! Why did I stop writing this. All the characters are likeable. They're all different and have stories. There's a plot and sub plots. There's character growth and change and introspection. There's a setting and the word usage is good. They speak more formally, but it's very consistent. I even remember the twist I was planning. I stopped writing just after introducing a character that's been living in the same manor, but has never been actually met because he doesn't leave his room. He walks in and goes. "I need to talk to you." And my character is like, "who are you?" And he goes, "I'm Quinn, and I need to talk to you." And I'm like, "damn girl, you did good." So i probably stopped because I have no idea why Quinn needs to talk to Jasper. I still know how I want it to end, but there is a lot of build up that needs to happen, not only with my main characters, but also with all the people in the country thing they life in. 'Cuz there's gotta be some kind of social uprising for the twist to work right.

Oh man. I've totally used that phrase three times now in this post and title. It's still applicable. I'm going to read some (most likely all) of this story (I have no willpower, so stopping myself probably won't happen). Before I do I'll start a load of laundry because I leave for Vermont tomorrow and I need clean clothes to pack for the trip. I'm going to visit all my college friends that I miss very much and I'm super excited.

New LJ Community That Excites Me

I've just found a new LJ writing community. There are many, but this one is new and small and it's making me really excited to write. Here's the link: http://community.livejournal.com/crack_that_muse/.

Thinking about writing, I have no idea where my summerwrite story is. I'm gonna go find it. I wrote a bunch on it, maybe I'll see if there's more to add to that, or I'll post bits of it here.

EDIT: I've found it. It was saved on Buzzword (http://buzzword.acrobat.com/). It's 86 pages long double-spaced and I stopped writing just when it was getting really good. I'm going to shrink down the spacing so that it's shorter and print it so that I can read through what I have find out where to go from where I am.

COLORS!!

I got bored, so I changed the colors. I was playing around with this fun toy (http://colorschemedesigner.com/) and found some colors that I liked to together.

Finally found out what the song played in the Astrosphere at Funtown is. It's called "Fire on High" by ELO: Electric Light Orchestra. Here's a YouTube video of the song.

The F-Files

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A parody of the X-Files.

Sims 3 People...WHY?! *cries*

I read this (http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp?item=1183392783) earlier and I am sad. Why must they push the date back?? I was so excited about it coming out on February 16th and now I have to wait four more months. It'll be warm then. It's winter in Maine. I feel like it'll never be warm ever again, and that makes it feel like longer. I was really excited about getting to play it soon. I'll just have to keep playing Sims 2. I'm glad I'm not one of the people that uninstalled all of Sims 2 to have space for Sims 3.

No Writing, But Yes Reading!

Haven't done any more writing (I suppose I'll do a little before I go to bed), but I have done a bunch of reading. Tonight was another night of going through post after post of blog about design, web design, fonts, logos, creativity, work spaces and more. I also watched The X-Files 2: I Want To Believe. I liked, but I may need to watch it again (with out my laptop) so that I actually know what's going on. And maybe it would make a bit more sense if I stopped procrastinating and just watched the rest of season 9 already.

So, yeah. That's my life for now. I'm starting a short Photoshop class and a short Illustrator class on Thursday (I'm taking them, not teaching them). I'm fairly solid with Photoshop (I use it all the time), but the classes are free and I might as well take it to brush up on the less icon and wallpaper oriented features and to learn how to use some of the ones I don't know about. Illustrator I'm less good with (and by that I mean quite terrible). I took a Photoshop/Illustrator class at Champlain my first semester, but I didn't like Illustrator and my teacher didn't really show us the cool things that could be done with it. I've seen some great vector work now and delved more into typography, so I'm more excited about understanding how it works and being able to use it proficiently. The thing I found most frustrating about Illustrator when I first starting learning it was how similar it was to Photoshop and also how different. It's just different enough that it gets me all confused and messed up.

Yay for Writing!

I watched the Super Bowl and did some writing. I even updated my word counter on the side. I have a character and some conflict now. I didn't write much, but it's more than I've written in a long time and I've missed it. I really need to learn to balance design and writing, and not do one until I really miss the other.

I told Jennie about my favorite hobby today. When I get really bored I like to get onto YouTube and search for a song title and then the words "me singing." So I pick a song, like "Apologize" and search for "apologize me singing" or "me singing apologize." It's fun because a whole bunch of people put up videos of themselves singing popular songs. And sometimes I find some really talented people and other times I find people that are really terrible. But it's great fun for me, and it's a great way to procrastinate.

I'm gonna do my YouTube thing for a while, then play the Sims a bit before going to bed. I work from 6pm-9:30pm tomorrow night, so I have to tape Chuck. That way I'll get to see it right when I get home and I'll be able to see it in 3-D. We already have the 3-D glasses for it, but I'm not sure if it's going to be in 3-D on Hulu so I want to tape it and watch on the television.

I Needs To Do Some Writing

I love NaNoWriMo, but it only comes one month a year and I find that I do barely any writing in the other 11 months of the year. So I think I'm going to try a NaNo type thing in February. That's right. Starting today I'm going to attempt to write 50,000 words. I don't have characters or a plot or even an inkling of an idea, but I'll make it work. I'll keep you guys updated with a bar on the left sidebar. There's no official site for people attempting 50k in February, so keeping my numbers updated here will have to be good enough.