Vicious Little Yuri

"It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control," Taylor wrote in a 43-page opinion. "... There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all 'inherent powers' must derive from that Constitution."

sorry for the edit, but it just no longer seemed appropriate to keep that there like that.

whatever.

The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz

You got 13 citations correct!

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jac3he/GiveUpQuiz/hitlercoulterquiz.html

If you illegally invade a soverign nation to secure oil interests and assuage a personal vendetta, you'll be re-elected.

~Seth MacFarlane, Harvard Class Day Speech

Taken from the WoW CS forum:

ask yourself.... would you think it's ok to set up a search engine site with pirated software from google called.... "moogle" or whatever? it's sort of like Plagarism and Stealing had a baby

Now, maybe it's just the time of night but that last bit just cracked me up.

Oh! And James will be here on Wed. June 28th and will be staying for 11 days.

That is all >:D

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17145

141 seconds top score.

"Under total surveillance there is no need to bear the price of maintaining
one's identity. They simply live under the delusion of being an individual.
What could be easier?"

~Citan Uzuki

I officially have a new place to live :D It's in a totally awesome victorian house with obscenely large rooms and disgustingly high ceilings. The room I'm renting is rather small, but the rent is very reasonable ($285 with ALL (and yes this includes broadband) utilities) which means that I will need to store a ton of stuff but I can survive. The housemates are very very nice people, and WOMEN which will be a nice change (huzzah for not having to put the toilet seat down!).

This means that James will have a place to come visit this summer, a prospect that is both very exciting and nerve wracking. Not having reliable internet has actually been a good thing. We've started talking more (though we always talked a great deal) about other things and less about the game (mostly because I miss playing and would rather not talk about it). He calls and talks to me just about every night, which is amazing. He's been very supportive through this whole thing, and very patient even when he wasn't feeling that way.

This takes such a huge amount of pressure off me. Maybe I can finally start getting ahead now. Take care of my dental work and such. :D YAY!

Okay... so. Looking for a place to live.

Free to good home: One Keta.

Sent out a ton of little blurbs to people in my location/price range. Here's hoping something comes up quickly. The sooner I get moved and settled, the better.

So, tomorrow is the dreaded third decade mark. I was staring in the mirror at the gray hair that seems to be so persisitent now. I don't like it all that much. I'm of the mindset that if it's going to go gray it should just all go gray and get it over with. This piecemeal strand here and there stuff needs to go.

Plans for the day include: Work work (lazy peons ftw!), leaving said work early (rawr!) and heading out for SILENT FREAKIN' HILL ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

I have such horribly high expectations for this movie. I want it to be like every nail-biting, late night screaming, pants-leg clutching, eyes wide open and jaw on the floor moment the game series has ever given me. If they can do that... ooohhhhh *shivers*

Whoever they got to play Dahlia looks spot on... and the scenery is just... creepy. I hope this movie makes me unable to sleep when I get home >:D

'I hastened,' Behemoth narrated, 'to the meeting room, the one with the
voice.
noise of water rushing along the gutters and also straight down the steps of
slope of Bald Skull, waiting for darkness. The naked body of Yeshua Ha-Nozri
'Good gracious, this is getting to be ridiculous!' Koroviev would not

s, we're dead. Oh, how intelligent that is! And how timely! Now I
ever seen in his life, became still more beautiful. `I was bored. You're
Shielding himself from the flame with his hand, he went on: 'Even at
become abundantly clear that passers-by did not see the lady flier. No one
the bed!'
handbags and other things.
about to come before you ...' Here Bengalsky interrupted himself and spoke
same one.
coincide at all with the Gospel stories.'
'Well, a very great interest ... you'd better use the opportunity...'
'But no one came. The fire roared in the stove, rain lashed at the
'Aie, I can't ... I can't! You should see what you look like! ...'
garden while Pilate returned to the balcony. There he told the secretary,

For those of you who would like to mosy on over to www.worldofwarcraft.com today (and today only) you'll be able to see that today's screenshot of the day is, in fact, MY PVP BATTLEGROUNDS PICTURE!!! Featuring myself and James in our alter-ego Trollsuits and the one and only WARPIG!

Took me a YEAR but I finally got screenie of the day!

This was attached to some spam... anyone have a reference?

was sick and he had gone for the doctor. Apologized for being late. Well, we
stalker, no grumbling now, you knew what you were getting into. Five hundred
There was a great clamor of squawks and screes from the crowd when first
the table: two small empties; nine batteries; various sizes of black sprays,

You'd have a falcon's short wings!

I've been under stress recently. I know, cliche. Who isn't and when are we not? It just seems the little problems bleed over on to one another until they become this big mass... like nuking a bunch of broken crayons in to one big melty pool.

I'm having a lot of trouble concentrating on things. I have to constantly try to get myself to focus at work. "Focus, focus, focus" has become the new in-between call mantra.

Rather than feeling good about the things I'm doing to help myself, I just feel miserable because all I can see are the areas in which I'm NOT doing so well... the areas in which I'm failing or not performing up to the standards that I feel I should reach.

No, it's not healthy... but what am I supposed to do? Accept being a failure? Get used to mediocrity? Maybe if I get disgusted with myself enough about these things then I can finally get the willpower to change them. Better Living through Self Depreciation(tm).

I know, intellectually, that there are things that I excel at. Things that I am damned good at. I'm not an idiot. But it's hard being my own damn pep squad. A little outside vaildation goes a long way. Which bothers me that I'd even want that. But recognition and appreciation when sincere... means a lot. It's good to know that you have some value to someone.

I do have some good things in my life right now. Some very good things. I try my best to appreciate them even when I'm not feeling very appreciative for anything. I'm trying to find solutions to my problems... but I get so frustrated when there is little to no visible progress. I feel like I've been laying groundwork for so long that I'm never going to get the house built. And that takes its toll.

I need to take some time to think today. What do I need? How can I get it? What tools do I have that I can use?

I don't regret caring... but I'm not used to being vulnerable. It's a scary place. One I'm not familiar with. Being open... just drives the desire for safety that much harder.

We need to have a long talk... I think.

Will I inject too hard and hurt myself?
No. Our device is specially made and designed with safety in mind. Inject with steady firm pressure only. It should always feel comfortable.

Will I get dizzy?
No. Just use warm shower water only.

Will it remove a bug that crawled in my ear?
No. Hold a flashlight towards your ear and the bug will crawl towards the light.

So! I got my Valentine's Day stuff just in time for St. Paddy's ^_~*

I got:
1) more RAM for Case
2) CHOCOLATE
3) 2 stuffed animals - a kitten named Turtle (like the candy, not the animal!), and a blue sparklie unicorn as of yet unnamed.
4) some very ood gum (I should scan this stuff, it's hilarious)
5) a very cute card with a kitten on the front!

So, tomorrow will be the 4 month marker for James and I. That's a very long time for me ^_^ Things are still going very well. We are still figuring out things about each other, how we both respond to things, working on resolving conflicts in a constructive manner. While we've had disagreements, I think that overall we've handled them fairly well. Both of us tend to have our times when we get overstressed (like this week!) but being able to talk about things helps. Things have settled down in to a comfortable place. There are still a lot of marks of a 'new' relationship though. We spend quite a bit of time (okay, so make that a LOT) of time together, lots of talking, lots of the requisite "miss you" and other types of behavior *grins*

I think that the long-distance aspects has both benefits and drawbacks. It is good that we get a good head-start on finding out if our personalities mesh well. Learning more about each other, working on ways to deal with problems, just getting to know one another. Of course the obvious downsides are the uncertainties of actually meeting, and all the subsequent possibilities that entails. What if we meet and it doesn't go well? What if it does? I could very easily get stuck in a lot of 'what if' scenario thinking.

LDRs, specifically ones that develop online, have several distinct phases - the online friendship, the online courtship, the voice communication, and then the physical meeting. Each one, in a way, is like getting to know that person all over again. Though I did discover tonight that there is even a difference between communication over VOIP and communication over phone! Like any relationship, it's subject to its good and bad times, stresses and celebrations... and it can be a challenge operating a relationship devoid of the actual physical presence of the other person. Communication minus facial expression and body language has to be very detailed, as we are finding out. How you type it, how you say it... they can both be taken very different ways. What one person means may not be what the other person hears... which also holds true for face to face interaction, but it's arguably much harder without the subtle clues.

But, I should be going to bed rather than rambling on. I promised myself I'd get to bed early and it's already almost 2am.

Ja Mata!

I, nA, nL, I You scored 58 Introversion, 29 Attachment, 50 Logic, and 87 Intellect!

You are: Introverted. NOT attached. NOT logical. Intellectual. You are the sort of person who fascinates me. You're quiet and solitary, possibly due to shyness and you don't let society get too into you. You are your own person, and you love to learn and understand the world around you. Chances are though, you aren't too into maths and science. You probably are more artistic, intuitive and emotional. People like you can understand true beauty. You are likely to be misunderstood, but you are a rare sort. A gift to any society.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 52% on Introversion You scored higher than 16% on Attachment You scored higher than 49% on Logic You scored higher than 88% on Intellect

Link: The Who Are You? Test written by Schizothyme on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Hmmm... look! Different results!

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Low
Wrath:	Low
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Medium
Pride:	Low

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Aaaaaand because James can't link his in my comments ;)

Here's his results too :P

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Medium
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	Medium

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Amazing... the horndog scores low on lust? How's that work? I think he rigged the results ;)

Rawr! So, I finished shopping for James' stuff yesterday and got it all packed up. Now just have to take it to the postal office and have them ship it up. Which means I should be doing something other than sitting on muh butt typing in my DJ. But... bleh!

I'm a horrible secret keeper I think. And James won't even give me a HINT about what I'm getting and I wanna knowwwwwwwwwwww (and if you're reading this dearest... gimme a hint!).

I don't wanna go to work today... not to say that there's ever a day where I say "OMG I soooo wanna go to work." No. That doesn't happen. Maybe if they let me bring a game to play... then, maybe. As long as it's not like Wednesday was, with people being a whole bunch of jackass stupid, it'll be all right.

Anyway! Ja Mata, minna!

hehe I just scored 60.94675% of the geek test. I are Extreme Geek.

Rawr.