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Scream meme?
academons - !!!!!! I loooooved Academons. That was what we, um, called our trivia team in high school. We competed in regional Quiz Bowl and the It's Academic! competition and occasionally the Long Island Challenge. I'm never confident enough to buzz in, but when I did it was terribly satisfying. And I looove practices. The adviser was a horrible sketchy old Jewish man, which meant sophomore year Katie and I were the only girls - pretty much junior year too. And all the other members were nerdy Jewish boys, pretty much, and it was incredibly fun. Katie is still dating the team captain. By senior year all our jew-boys had graduated and it was less fun, but the first two years were awesome. Here is an episode of classic guingel where I'm all happy about a fun day of academic competitions. In case you didn't already know I was a HUGE NERD.
pippi longstocking dub - BEST MOVIE EVER. Apparently there were some American Pippi Longstocking movies? That I don't give a fuck about? BECAUSE THE DUBBED SWEDISH ONE OWNS. All of them, actually. There must be at least three. We just got to watch the first one the other week and it was STILL AWESOME. The movies are already cool (apparently they were a Swedish tv series adapted to movies for the US audiences) cos they're filmed in 1969 in Sweden and all the candy and scenery and everything is AWESOME. And the plots and characters. But then they're dubbed in the most ridiculous fashion possible and it is endlessly and unbearably entertaining. She makes cookies all over her floor and then cuts them out into awesome shapes and there are cookies everywhere!! I am not sure which one that's in, though. Also they build a plane out of trash and they're all "Those cardboard boxes will be the fuselage!" And Annika appears to have several personality disorders and I love her.
pygmy hippos for congressmen - this was. . . a plan Katie and I came up with? We found out that pygmy hippos are small enough to be kept in pools as pets, although they're very ill-tempered. And we thought it would be a good idea to have this as a perk for Congressmen? Use the Congressional gym, get a pygmy hippo. I used to have a photo of a chalk drawing Katie did illustrating this concept but I can't find it.
salé and pelletier - my favorite pairs skating team! I love Gordeeva and Grinkov, but Salé and Pelletier are just such good performers! And they're both so personable and charming and lovable. They were great helping Mary Carillo and Scott Hamilton host that Olympic Ice show, I loved that thing.
xander/lindsey - for some reason this is a buffy pairing that I got particularly attached to. Which is rare for me with pairings, period. I love both characters, and I think I just found that even though they never interacted at all, neither were ever on each other's series, even, it seemed that whenever they were written in fanfic the authors gave them a dynamic that I really enjoyed. It was sexy stuffs. It brought out the parts I loved about both characters - Xander's sweetness and Lindsey's badassery - without exaggerating either or filling things up with angst, whether it be "I'm so insecure" or "I'm so evil." They were just "Let's have hot sex and good times!"
neverending story - I love this book. I also actually love the movie, and that is because I saw it before I'd read the book, at the library, when I was very young. So it was all dark and the movie was so amazing and the Childlike Empress was so pretty, and then I just had these vague memories of awesomeness happening. And then I read the book many years later and I love it. I love the different colored text, I love Atreyu, I love it. Especially the first half - I reread it earlier this year and found that because Bastian wishes all these magical changes upon himself, he becomes unrecognizable and I felt less invested. I don't like magical changes to personalities.
macs - XD A lot of these interests are like, some of the earlier things I had as interests and then I got attached to them. I've always been a mac user and I love them, but I don't. . . spend time thinking about them specifically. But like, my dad's been a mac user since forever, and does some consulting and teaches this "beginners" class for mac users. So I put macs as an interest, probably when I first set up LJ. XD I don't know if I would call it an interest now! I might have felt more gung ho back then.
SO! I found out about my raise today! If I did my math right, which is not a guarantee but I did check with an online percentage calculator and we agreed, then I got a 14% raise! It is SEXY and exciting and I'll be taking home a hefty chunk more each month - maybe $100 more with each (biweekly) paycheck? I'm not quite sure when it went into effect. And I will be raking in the overtime pay too! Also, I got a nice little letter saying it was a "merit increase" and only given to people who deserve it. ;)
Also former!roommate!Corey bought me birthday pie. :D And we ate borscht! Which is her nickname! But neither of us had ever had it. It was okay, actually, especially when you consider how much I hate beets! And it was completely different from what either of us were expecting. A fascinating experience.
OH! My friend Alison at work got me the most awesomest birthday presents! A desktop dartboard! So I can continue to perfect my darts skills! I've wanted one for a long time. And it's really nice! :D AND she got me a little, well, this exact magnetic sculpture thing - you can arrange the little stars and moons however you like and it's incredibly fun. They're fantastic presents, I'm very impressed with her gift-buying skills!
And Katie got me all sorts of awesome I don't know what in Berlin that she will give me on Saturday, so basically, fabulous week-long birthday!
Also I've been watching Shep Smith videos on youtube a bit. ::coos::
ilanabean42, Comment on this post (SCREAM MEME!!!) and I will choose six interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean/why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along. Scream meme?
academons - !!!!!! I loooooved Academons. That was what we, um, called our trivia team in high school. We competed in regional Quiz Bowl and the It's Academic! competition and occasionally the Long Island Challenge. I'm never confident enough to buzz in, but when I did it was terribly satisfying. And I looove practices. The adviser was a horrible sketchy old Jewish man, which meant sophomore year Katie and I were the only girls - pretty much junior year too. And all the other members were nerdy Jewish boys, pretty much, and it was incredibly fun. Katie is still dating the team captain. By senior year all our jew-boys had graduated and it was less fun, but the first two years were awesome. Here is an episode of classic guingel where I'm all happy about a fun day of academic competitions. In case you didn't already know I was a HUGE NERD.
pippi longstocking dub - BEST MOVIE EVER. Apparently there were some American Pippi Longstocking movies? That I don't give a fuck about? BECAUSE THE DUBBED SWEDISH ONE OWNS. All of them, actually. There must be at least three. We just got to watch the first one the other week and it was STILL AWESOME. The movies are already cool (apparently they were a Swedish tv series adapted to movies for the US audiences) cos they're filmed in 1969 in Sweden and all the candy and scenery and everything is AWESOME. And the plots and characters. But then they're dubbed in the most ridiculous fashion possible and it is endlessly and unbearably entertaining. She makes cookies all over her floor and then cuts them out into awesome shapes and there are cookies everywhere!! I am not sure which one that's in, though. Also they build a plane out of trash and they're all "Those cardboard boxes will be the fuselage!" And Annika appears to have several personality disorders and I love her.
pygmy hippos for congressmen - this was. . . a plan Katie and I came up with? We found out that pygmy hippos are small enough to be kept in pools as pets, although they're very ill-tempered. And we thought it would be a good idea to have this as a perk for Congressmen? Use the Congressional gym, get a pygmy hippo. I used to have a photo of a chalk drawing Katie did illustrating this concept but I can't find it.
salé and pelletier - my favorite pairs skating team! I love Gordeeva and Grinkov, but Salé and Pelletier are just such good performers! And they're both so personable and charming and lovable. They were great helping Mary Carillo and Scott Hamilton host that Olympic Ice show, I loved that thing.
xander/lindsey - for some reason this is a buffy pairing that I got particularly attached to. Which is rare for me with pairings, period. I love both characters, and I think I just found that even though they never interacted at all, neither were ever on each other's series, even, it seemed that whenever they were written in fanfic the authors gave them a dynamic that I really enjoyed. It was sexy stuffs. It brought out the parts I loved about both characters - Xander's sweetness and Lindsey's badassery - without exaggerating either or filling things up with angst, whether it be "I'm so insecure" or "I'm so evil." They were just "Let's have hot sex and good times!"
neverending story - I love this book. I also actually love the movie, and that is because I saw it before I'd read the book, at the library, when I was very young. So it was all dark and the movie was so amazing and the Childlike Empress was so pretty, and then I just had these vague memories of awesomeness happening. And then I read the book many years later and I love it. I love the different colored text, I love Atreyu, I love it. Especially the first half - I reread it earlier this year and found that because Bastian wishes all these magical changes upon himself, he becomes unrecognizable and I felt less invested. I don't like magical changes to personalities.
macs - XD A lot of these interests are like, some of the earlier things I had as interests and then I got attached to them. I've always been a mac user and I love them, but I don't. . . spend time thinking about them specifically. But like, my dad's been a mac user since forever, and does some consulting and teaches this "beginners" class for mac users. So I put macs as an interest, probably when I first set up LJ. XD I don't know if I would call it an interest now! I might have felt more gung ho back then.
SO! I found out about my raise today! If I did my math right, which is not a guarantee but I did check with an online percentage calculator and we agreed, then I got a 14% raise! It is SEXY and exciting and I'll be taking home a hefty chunk more each month - maybe $100 more with each (biweekly) paycheck? I'm not quite sure when it went into effect. And I will be raking in the overtime pay too! Also, I got a nice little letter saying it was a "merit increase" and only given to people who deserve it. ;)
Also former!roommate!Corey bought me birthday pie. :D And we ate borscht! Which is her nickname! But neither of us had ever had it. It was okay, actually, especially when you consider how much I hate beets! And it was completely different from what either of us were expecting. A fascinating experience.
OH! My friend Alison at work got me the most awesomest birthday presents! A desktop dartboard! So I can continue to perfect my darts skills! I've wanted one for a long time. And it's really nice! :D AND she got me a little, well, this exact magnetic sculpture thing - you can arrange the little stars and moons however you like and it's incredibly fun. They're fantastic presents, I'm very impressed with her gift-buying skills!
And Katie got me all sorts of awesome I don't know what in Berlin that she will give me on Saturday, so basically, fabulous week-long birthday!
Also I've been watching Shep Smith videos on youtube a bit. ::coos::
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:12 pm (UTC)DO IT.
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-28 12:42 pm (UTC)Oh, fine, just the one - cos he's wearing sunglasses.
Hey, is everything okay with Tom?
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Date: 2009-07-28 08:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, Tom is fine.. he had called up to me saying "Susan, I need to go to the hospital! Can you drive?" So of course I took this as something terrible had happened? Apparently he just had to be there for a 4am procedure on his leg.
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Date: 2009-07-31 09:07 pm (UTC)Here's a couple more:
Aw yeah, you sexy thing!
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Date: 2009-08-01 04:59 am (UTC)Oh yeah, and just so you know, I didn't die when I went to get cookies. :D