Like Shooting Stars

Okay, Madre is an evil woman for ONCE AGAIN getting that song stuck in my head. This is the third time it's happened in as many days!


Well, back at school. Not sure how I feel about this. Part of me is glad to be away from home again because it means no more kitteh drama for a while, no more being hollered at to stop what ever I'm doing and help THEM do something. But it also means SCHOOL stuff is upon me and that I don't have those dramatic kittehs to provide me equal entertainment and cuddles. I'm missing them terribly right now and it hasn't even been 24 hours. At this time, I would have a Sikozu or Billie Jean in my lap...*sniff* I don't like the empty lap thing I have going on.


In hair news, the PINK is BACK! XD Just got finished taking care of that (after it took me some time to get EVERYTHING unpacked, set up, put away, etc.), and there's a part of me that feels complete once more! I would take pics, but I didn't dry it tonight so it's kinda pointless. I'll take some tomorrow and post the whole lot (precut, post cut, prepink, PINK!) together.


Alrighty, short entry. There's some fic I wanna read (very EXCITED to read, actually), plus it seems updating the journal tonight is dangerous to my heath. I aggravated my knee when moving stuffs back into my room today and mindless babble post is making me bouncy and rock the knee. O.o Might as well just take the temptation away!


~Pip


P.S. HUZZAH for Michael doing commentary on Penance! XD XD XD He always delivers such amazing commentary!

Just a few things...


- Am back at school. It doesn't suck so much coming back to Ragans and my own room as it did heading back to Kellum the past to years to a shared room. I still wish I didn't have to be here, though. Think it's ridiculous to have to come back for two weeks. They should just start the semester two weeks earlier in August, and let us have off from Turkey Day until New Year's.


- Was going to post these thoughts before the twit-post came up, but I was reading about MLK, Malcolm X, and The Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I have my third in-class essay tomorrow on this topic (though idk why I'm putting so much hard work into it - the woman is one of the harshest graders I've come across. Got a B- on the last essay...ME, a B-! WTF is that??). I wanted to get a good portion of the way through it tonight. I have like 105 pages to go. SHOULD be able to get it knocked out before the class tomorrow. Either way, I think I've built up enough knowledge on the subject to give another better than B- essay. I just have such a problem reading non-fiction (yes, issue for a history major), especially when it's not reading selected by choice.


- My "good" knee has been hurting a lot lately. I say "good" b/c this was supposedly the one that DIDN'T sustain any kind of damage when I got hit by the car way back when. And yet, I get more problems from it on a regular basis than I do from the 'bad' one. Maybe sleeping in a bed for more than 4 hours tonight will help. I hope it does. Walking to class with a knee in pain is never a fun thing.


That's all I've got for now...off to watch more funny L4D vids on the Youtubez!


~Pip

P.S. - I'm exhausted...thus the prerequisite post-road trip exhaustion icon comes out.

So you guys remember way back in January when my shoulder was messed up and I was in excruciating pain??


Well, I've managed to wrench it and do it again. *whimpers*


I was extracting a kitteh (Fiona to be specific) from the attic (she had used the 'secret passage' in my bathroom to get up in there), and she, for some damn unknown reason, refused to come easily. Thus I ended up with a wrenched shoulder - AGAIN!


It's definitely NOT fun, and what's worse is I have to work a register tomorrow. My options for what do about that are looking grim...it's either work and suffer through this pain (which I'm sure would only get worse with pulling all those groceries over my register), or not go in and lose a day of pay. With Chicago only two weeks away, I'm not sure I want to give up on the money. How much pain will I put myself through to make sure I enjoy Chicago?? Right now, I really don't know.


What's ironic is the last time this happened, I watched All Around the Town while trying to stay as immobile as possible. Been thinking about watching again recently. Is this a sign to do so?? If so, did it have to be so FUCKING painful?!


Okie donkie, dinner's ready and Madre is yelling at me to go downstairs and get some.

~Pip


P.S. - Also managed to bruise my right heel again a few days ago... I'm on a roll this week!

What, I managed to injure myself in some way again?? Yes, that IS correct! While getting ready to get into the shower today, managed to slam my face into the tiled corner of the shower wall while reaching for my stuff on the tub. Hurt like fucking hell at the time, and now the left side of my face is pretty damn sore. It's mostly just around my eye area, but can feel it in other places when I move a certain way or squint b/c of the light.

And yet, I'm not surprised at all that I did this. Because this is me and I do these sort of things.


In less painful news (or maybe more depending on your perspective?? *snirk*), I picked up a copy of the rerelease of COtG today. LIke I had hoped (and mentioned a little while back), it was available at Wally World (my faith in them, even the dinky one here, has been growing since they had Mega Snake AND Swarmed at the same time! ;P ). I had planned on watching it today, but between helping Smurfinator with 'work' and ramming my face into a wall, it just didn't happen. Hoping for a watch on Thursday - if not, definitely on Saturday when I'm in the box.


Evil twitter friends are trying to convince me to go to Vancouver for the Creation con...they are evil, yes?? That's what I thought!


There were a few other things I wanted to say, but I totally forgot what they all were all at once. Blaming the head injury for this memory loss. Taking it as a sign to end this entry here!


~Pip

P.S. - Finished some fic yesterday. Once I get it back from beta, I'll be posting it.

I've been dying to watch End Game for so long now (it's irrelevant that I own it Xs 2 and could have watched whenever I wanted), so I was excited that it was today's episode. It's an all around winner if you ask me!


So I figured I'd do an ACTUAL post since it's been a little while since I last did it (last night's/early this morning's post not included, of course).


Speaking of last night's post - ended up not presenting the power point today. Of course. I did get the video finished a few hours before the class (but still, I wouldn't have had enough time to do it if I HAD gone to ANT - I spent the time I would've been in the class working on the vid). At least it's out of the way and ready to be presented, and I know if I hadn't of missed my class to work on the vid and not finished the vid, she'd have wanted me to present it today. It's how these things go.


So last night, I also mention bruising my foot. Yeah, not really sure how it happened (it was the bottom of the foot, so walking was involved). All I know is Tuesday I was wearing my black wedge boots - walked all around campus in them. I thought maybe that's what did it - just wearing the boots. But then I realized I'd worn them before all around campus, and I'd also been wearing them while traipsing all around the Audobon Zoo (you can see them in the picture with my Home Buddah), so it couldn't have been just wearing them. I guess I must have stepped wrong or something, and the results of that didn't show up until Wednesday morning. I have done stuff like that before. Kinda like when you get a bruise and don't know where it came from.


I was working on the King Arthur AU during End Game - I finally got the kick to continue - I'd been stumped on how to start the next chapter, but it finally came to me! Yay! In other fic news, I should be starting some stuff for one or more of my days for the Month of Love this weekend. I need to work on my paper, and read for the Reading Journal due on Monday, and do homework for ANT2100, but I WILL b finding the time to at least start.


I'm having problems with my DVD burner - at least with the normal program I use. I'm gonna try and use one of the others I have. I really need to get this DVD burned. It's essential for my vid-making!


And just some additional things:


 ~ Forgot Cary Grant's name earlier today. Thankfully it came to me before I talked to Madre or she would've killed me.

~ Skittles will NEVER EVER be the same again, thank you very much dvshipper !

~ Chicago Con Fund now at $83.24.

That's about it for now... if anything important comes up later, you know I'll post! XD

~Pip

For some reason, my iPod keeps bringing 'Whiskey Lullaby' up on shuffle - I swear I've heard it three times today!

Just a few things...

~ FINALLY got caught up on Burn Notice. The show really is love - and I was happy to see that Victor kept 'appearing' through the episodes without actually being in it. And of course I was laughing... such funny stuff. Of course even waiting three days for the next new episode is as bad as waiting three months - it feels like it's gonna take forever!

~ There's a social on my floor tonight in about an hour. Idk if I should go - the girls on my hall don't seem to like me much. *ponders*

~ Shoulder is pretty much better - still a twinge, but nothing too painful. Certain movements, however, are still a hassle.

~ I've got 'She's Everything' sitting open, so that means I should be working on it soon. I only have two parts left to go, so maybe (big maybe, though) I'll get it finished in the next few weeks.

Yeah, that's all I've got for now.


~Pip

I love The Princess Diaries - I really need it on DVD.

Well, I figured I'd update on a few things:

~ My shoulder/neck is A LOT better today - taking Aleve and just going to bed last night really helped. There's still a twinge of pain when I move my neck/arms around too much, but it's definitely bearable compared to yesterday. I'm hoping just lounging around here and watching something (after The Princess Diaries is over) will loosen it out enough to make the pain go away completely. If not, then I'll go to Thagard on Tuesday after class.

~ My entry for the Kawoosh 80's music challenge won first place! I'm really surprised, considering it's the first challenge I've entered over there. I mean, there's some good vid makers there, so yeah - surprised. I'll be posting it over here hopefully sometime today.

~ The reading journal due for my ENC class tomorrow is only on the reading, so I don't have to watch King Arthur right away. The journal involving that is due on Wednesday, so I'm gonna watch the movie Tuesday. Which means I'll have to watch Burn Notice either today or tomorrow. Yes, I know - horrible for waiting until just days before it comes back to catch up. But I WILL watch them either today/tomorrow. I have to!

~ Madre is loving the Twilight series - she's already a third into Eclipse. Told me I was an evil daughter for making her read it (yes, b/c I FORCED her to read it...). I already knew this.

~ The girls two doors down from me are being loud as frell right now! It's rather annoying, made even worse b/c their door is open. I'll be happy when I'm out of this dorm next semester - I'm seriously over it.

~ I'll be updating the stuff list, for anyone who cares.

That's about it for now... maybe more later.

~Pip

So since I'm in such pain right now (my shoulder/neck is beyond killing me), and yet couldn't seem to sleep (even when i found a semi-comfortable, bearable position), I decided to pop a movie in.

And it ended up being...*drum roll please*...Suspicious River. (dankriss  approves XP)

Interesting movie....couldn't quite understand some of what was going on but that could be blamed on this pain. I will say that I loved Michael in it - seeing his as a baddie is always so much fun. Very different roll, even from some of the other baddies he's played that I adore. *points to pretty Victor icon* That's always fun to watch.

To dankriss - there wasn't anything that really made me think 'oh, i'm not watching this again'. Like I said, most things in movies don't really bother me. I tried to figure out which scene it could've been, but between the pain and not really seeing anything wrong with any of the movie, I wasn't really sure. You'll have to let me know which scene that was.


So right now, I'm being naughty and ripping the disk so I can snatch up his scenes so I have them. Well, I'm letting ripper run... I'm gonna head back to my bed and try and be as immobile as possible (even sitting here at the desk typing this is excrutiating). I'm not sure what I want to watch now. It's a toss up between All Around the Town, The Tudors, and Dark Knight. I really want to watch All Around the Town - it's been a while since I last watched it, and I'm in a very Michael mood right now (of course when am I not?) - But with the pain, I'm thinking something I've seen before and recently, like Dark Knight, might be better. Or, of course, I could watch All Around the Town, then Dark Knight.


Either way, my shoulder is screaming - I need to lie back down.

~Pip