ボルティモアから江東区まで

2012-01-27T11:47:00.001-05:00

You'd never guess I'm smiling right now. At the dentist. They just numbed my mouth to perform the first of two steps of a root canal, the nerve extraction. Mah! I hate having a numb mouth. Grrrr

2012-01-25T12:08:00.001-05:00

I hate myself right now. I do this all the time. No one else to blame but myself. A smarter person would learn from their mistakes, not constantly repeat them.

2012-01-22T11:11:00.001-05:00

Found this in a book called Sea Monsters at work. It made me smile. Wishful thinking. *coughtiagowritesunsetcovenpleaseandthankscough*

Vol 149

2011-11-30T21:13:00.001-05:00

30 days and 50 thousand words of absolute nothingness written, Nanowrimo is coming to an end. I've completed the 50K goal, but I'm not even halfway through my story. That's okay. I need a break from Noor. Time to work on The Dating Chronicles, finish some edits, and find out when SBW (my writer's group) will meet again now that nano has ended. Mah!

Vol 148

2011-11-02T22:34:00.002-04:00

Once again, it's Nanowrimo time. I'm working on Noor 2.
I've just stumbled across something I wrote last nanowrimo when I reached an impasse.

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This is what it sounds like in my head as I am working on a story. It's consistent bickering when an agreement is not immediately reached.

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M: Damn you A! Stop being such a dipstick. No one will want to read that. “I” don’t want to write that.

A: It’s my story. Let me tell it the way I please.

M: It’s not YOUR story. It’s OUR story.

MS: Okay. Okay, M. Calm down. She didn’t mean it that way.

M: Yeah, well, she better filter what she says before I erase her. Permanently.

A: Whatever! You could try, but you’ll just bring me back. Like you always do.

M: Don’t test me. I’m this—close to scrapping the entire idea. Just toss your world right into the trashcan.

A: It’s your world too.

MS: She has a point. It is.

M: Would you just shut up MS! Whose side are you on anyway?

MS: No side. I’m the levelheaded on. You’re the devil on one shoulder, and she’s the angel on the other.

A: Why am I the Angel? I can be the devil. I can be bad.

M: Sure you can.

A: What was that? Do you doubt me?

MS: No one doubts you.

M: Yes I do. Speak for yourself.

A: I can so be the devil. Why don’t you try being the angel?

M: No way. Not possible. First of all, I look good being bad…you on the other hand…no so much.

A: I can so be bad. Wasn’t I the one who collapsed that wall on T?

M: My idea.

A: And I set N’s pants on fire.

M: Also my idea.

A: Well…I…I…filled D’s tank with sugar.

MS: Sorry, A, but that was also her idea.

A: Well, so what if I’m not as bad and reckless as you.

M: Reckless...you want reckless? Well you got it.

MS: No. Lets not do this.

M: Shut up! MS, tell her to stop being such a fanny. I want to get this on and over with already. She’s being dragging this out for the better half of the century.

A: It’s not me. It’s her. She always wants to be danger and destruction.

M: I do not. I just don’t want to be BORING, which you are.

A: I don’t know why me being so boring bothers you so much.

M: Well duh, boring you equals belittled me. And I’d be damn if I let those condescending pricks in the world turn their noses down on me all because of you.

A: There will be people like that regardless. That has nothing to do with me.

MS: She has a point.

M: Can you say anything else besides that?

A: Quit snapping at her. She’s trying to be reasonable. Good thing to.

M: Call me unreasonable one more time. I dare you.

MS: M, no need for this. Just calm down.

M: I AM CALM!

A: Sure you are. You’re being very reasonable right now.

M: That’s it. Someone’s going for a nice lonnnngggggg dip in the ocean.

A: Not the ocean…

MS: M, come on. You know how she is around water.

A: Please don’t. Come on M don’t do this to me. I’m yours. You can’t do this to me.

M: Are you trying to reason with the unreasonable one???

MS: ….

(The argument continues for hours on end.)

(P.S: A managed to avoid the ocean, but she didn’t have so much luck with the neighborhood pool.)

I can feel another argument again this yeah. Only this time it will be with Nikolas. Damn you Nikki-poo!

Vol 147

2011-10-25T15:45:00.001-04:00

Making Trice's scarf. This makes me sleepy. I'm trying to finish this and two other sets by Monday. I won't have time after that with Nanowrimo starting Tuesday. Then I'll be spending a month on Noor, with an occasional stop at Shannon's or to see Suri and Jime. Lol. Oh, I guess school is important as well. And work. Whatever.

Vol 146

2011-10-19T20:52:00.001-04:00

I should really finish this paper. It's due tomorrow.

Vol 145

2011-10-16T11:35:00.000-04:00

Your rainbow is intensely shaded green, violet, and red.

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

So...I think this is strangely correct. Weird. These things never are correct.

Vol 144

2011-10-03T15:17:00.001-04:00

On your mark!!!  Getting my self, thoughts, outlines, and all that jazz organized for nanowrimo.

Vol 143

2011-09-30T06:17:00.001-04:00

I don't get the fancy double-decker train. *pout* Terrible night of sleep. I don't even think I slept. Not cool since I'm on my way to NYC today and the last thing I need to be is sick and sleepy. Speaking of sick. I packed the wrong pills. I was supposed to pack the antibiotics but I packed the valium instead. Yes, I know. Considering that I didn't sleep, the valium would help me but i'm not taking that crap. That mess wilds my life.

Vol 142

2011-09-29T22:17:00.001-04:00

Joined the chat over on TKA tonight. Got to talk to NS, GS, Jill Monroe, and Jessica Andersen.

GS said that she loved writing Neeka but wouldn't tell more about her. THEREFORE, I'm going to take that as a "we'll see more of Neeka in the future." Since GS has a LoTU spin-off coming out, I can only pray that we'll see Neeka again in that. I loved that deaf but deadly harpy.

NS said that the ghost is a character we've met and his identity will be revealed soon. *faints*

And I won one of Jessica Andersen's Night Keepers novels. *squeal* Free books are great. Free books about hot ancient Mayan folk is even better. This has been the best book filled birthday weeks everrrrrr. *dances*

Vol 141

2011-09-28T15:12:00.001-04:00

People expect your birthday to be a joyous, carefree day, and sometimes it is. Yesterday was a bit of both. Got out of school insanly hourly, 6 hours or so early. I went shopping and bought a nice pretty orange waist length Inspector Gadget jacket. When I got home, I enjoyed one of the two birthday gifts I bought myself. Both are books. (STRIDEY-MAN, how I now adore thee. Kaia's too good for you, but that's okay. Defeat will make you better.) But my jaw ached and so did my head, and the pain pills I took, ones prescribed by my doctor for headaches, didn't work. Let's just say it went down hill from there. So, when I woke up this morning, I called my dentist to have this tooth that's usually the source of all aches and pains checked. But that isn't until 4:30 and it's barely three. I'm killing time down at the Inner Harbor. This is the other side, across from my job, stretched out on a bench in the shade with my kindle. Still feeling a little weird, a combination of having a cold and what ever the hell is going on with my mouth and head. Oh yeah, got a 50 dollar amazon kindle card for my birthday. Amazing. Three years ago I wouldn't be caught dead reading a book. Now, that's all I want to do. I fell old.

Vol 140

2011-09-26T12:10:00.003-04:00

STRIDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Now isn't this a wonderful gift to myself. Happy Birthday to meeeeee! *swoons*

Vol 139

2011-09-23T20:48:00.001-04:00

So I finally did it. I finally cut my hair off. Just call me Justina Beiber. P.S, I have no clue why i'm making that face.

Vol 138

2011-09-14T21:37:00.001-04:00

I love this part. Wake up! Wake up!

Vol 137

2011-09-14T07:10:00.001-04:00

Look at the big orange ball of fire. No seriously. What do you think the sun is?  I'm a bit snappy, snippy, and bitch today...well, this week, but I just know today will test my patience and it's only 7am....Aw fuck. Forgot my work shirt. Oh well. I' m not going back to get it. They can either take me in my sweat jacket or not. There was a reason I blogging today, but my less than patient self has forgotten.

Vol 137

2011-09-06T15:33:00.002-04:00

Shit. My notes so far and I still have 30 minutes of class to go.

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Psych 390

Sept 6^th

Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology

Division of thenervous system

Central Nervous system (CNS) – brain and spinal cord

Peripheral nervous system (PNS) – nerves outside the brainand spinal cord

Somatic –sensorynerves to CNS

-motors nerves to musclesand glands

Autonomic – neurons that controlheart, intestines, and other organs

Organization of theSpinal cord

Organization:

White = Fibers (malinated axis)

Gray = Cells (cell bodies)

Dorsal = Sensory (import)

Ventral = Motor (sensory output)

Ganglion – site of cell bodies

Functions:

Transmit information to and from the brain

Reflex control of motor activity

Some integrative functions

Sympathetic System: (Thoracic/Lumbar system)

Controls fight or flight response

Release ACH at ganglia (ganglia are interconnected)

Release norepinephrine at target

Increase heart rate, increase blood pressure

Parasympathetic system: (Cranial/Sacral Origin)

Counteracts the effect of the sympathetic system.

Helps build resources.

Ganglia are not interconnected

Release ACH at both ganglia and target. No release ofadrenaline.

Division of CNS:

Spinal cord

Medulla

Ascending/descending fiber tracts

Postural reflexes – maintain upright position

Reflex control of swallowing and vomiting

Pons

Continuation of fiber tracts

Postural reflexes

Bulge – fibers connect to cerebellum

Locus Coeruleus and Reticular Formation: maintenance ofsleeping and walking (collection of nerve cells)

Midbrain
Tegmentum
Reticular formation: Cortical EEG

Sleeping/Waking

Dopaminergic nuclei – substantia nigra, VTA; Parkinson’sDisease

Tectum:

Superior colliculus; visual reflex center (located aboveinferior colliculus)

Inferior colliculus; auditory reflexes

Forebrain

Cerebellum

Sensory-Motor

Coordination

Jerkymovement

Input fromall sensory systems

Hypothalamus

Controls pituitary

Sympathetic NS

Motivation

Regulation of food intake

Thalamus

Relay nuclei (every sensory system goes through)

Sleeping/Waking

Basal Ganglia

Striatum: caudate globus palldus putamen

Motor Functions: Extrpyramidal system

nAccumbens: reinforcement

Limbic System

Limbic Lode include temporal neocortex

Emotion/Motivation (amygdala, septum, cingulate)

Hippocampus: Spatial learning/memory

Cerebral Cortex

Organization

Sixdistinct layers of cells

Organizedinto columns in which cells have similar or related properties

Sensory, motor, association cortex – modality specific

Relative increase in association cortex: higher nervousprocesses

Bilateral representation (with some exceptions, e.g., language)

Corpus callosum: Fiver bundle responsible for interhem

Blood-Brain Battier

Refers to permeability barriers that present obstacles tothe diffusion of chemicals from blood and CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) to neurons.

Produce by close-fitting, continuous epithelial cells ofbrain capillaries

What can pass the blood brain barrier?

Passive transport – require no energy to pass

Smalluncharged molecules such as O₂ and CO₂

Moleculesthat can dissolve in fat

Active transport – requires energy

Glucose,amino acids, vitamins and hormones

Circumventricular Organs:

Neural structures that are functionally on the blood side ofthe barrier

Monitor blood and CFS and communicate with neurons on theother side of the barrier

Glial Cells

Glia cells are concerned with the maintenance and integrityof neurons.

Oligodendrocytes produce myelin sheaths that insulate motoraxons in CNS

Schwann cells have a similar function in the periphery

Astrocytes pass chemicals back and forth between neurons andblood and among various neurons in an area

Microglia proliferate in areas of brain damage and removetoxic materials

Neurons

Designed to admit and receive information

Vol 136

2011-09-05T22:04:00.001-04:00

I can't really show you what it looks like on because it's hard taking the picture with it on. It's very soft, lamb skin leather, kinda feel bad about the poor lambs. It's really thick, double lining, so i can wear it in the fall and winter. Yay. It was on sale for $200 but i talked him down to 150 because i'm cheap. He said 170, but when I saw that it's a little sratched on the back i refused to pay more than 150 so got it for 150. I really wanted one since last year and i said if i ever buy a leather i want a real one, not pleather.

Vol 135

2011-09-03T15:10:00.001-04:00

When life gets you down, just keep loving. Hahaha! My drawing skills own the world.

Vol 134

2011-09-01T15:03:00.002-04:00

I know I complain about the price of ebooks all the time, but let's go further into that.

Back before I bought a Kindle, I had the kindle program downloaded on both my ipod and PC. A lot of novels that I read run $7.99 in paperback format when I buy them from Barnes and Noble, and when I would purchased them on Amazon, I would pay about $5.99. Now, the prices are equal. It pisses me off because I paid over $100 for the ereader, yet I still pay the same amount for the book. Therefore, I actually spent more money when I was originally trying to save.

And what do I get for it?

I get the book instantly. That's a plus, but is that a big enough plus. I also save trees and space. That's another plus, but still, is it plus enough? Sometimes it feels like it is, but other times it doesn't.

Right now, I'm not happy I'm paying the same amount for an ebook that I pay for a physical copy. I could actually buy it used from someone for a penny. I feel cheated. Then there's the fact that amazon will sell the hard copy book for less than the Kindle edition. WTH man! Other times, like when I buy self-published books and I only pay $1 or $2, I feel satisfied.

There have been plenty of arguments between customers and publishers about the price of ebooks costing so much but publishers spending less to actually produce the novel, and publishers will say that's not true, and even if it does cost a bit less, they don't sell as many copies of the ebook as the hard copy, therefore, they have to make up the money some way. B.S. Publishers also complain about books being pirated. *rolls eyes* When you put anything on the internet, it's going to be pirated. It's as simple as that. The question is, should they charge so much for the ebook to make up for a lost that was guaranteed from the beginning? Hey! Here's an almost-not-really-solution. How about dropping the price of those ebooks that are even with the hard copies by a few bucks (depending on how much the hard copy cost) and maybe more people will buy the novel when they first look at it instead of looking for a book and saying, "Oh hell no!" to the price, then turning around to find a torrent for it. That's what I would do Just saying. But it doesn't matter what the publishers decide because stupid fans like me will still buy the books...a third of the time.

You know, I want to boycott over priced ebooks. I mean, it's not like I have the same privileges with the ebooks as I have with my paper copies. I can't loan it to anyone who highlight it (although most ereaders allow you to highlight text, it's not the same). It's actually more time consuming locating pages. But, will I boycott them? It depends. I'm a little obsessive over some books and will pay for them regardless of the price if I want it terribly, and my utter dislike of library books cuts that option. But if it's not a novel of a series I already read I would probably not purchase it.

So really? Am I being scammed by publishers who feel they should charge more for ebooks so they can recooperate the money or am I breaking even and/or getting off?

Vol 133

2011-08-29T16:02:00.002-04:00

About to watch One Day. Lets see how much they differ from the book. I kind of hate this theater. It's always soooo cold. No matter how much I wear it's not enough.

Edit: Don't pay to see it. The movie does no justice to the book. It's an okay movie, but it lacks the intimacy that the book contained, and when you're viewing the relationship of people in one day increments, intimacy is very very important. I did like seeing some bits fleshed out, but still...Over all it was a bit cute. Sadly, the characters didn't age well. I know at 38-40, you don't look all old and saggy. Not if you take care of yourself, but Dexter didn't age well. He still looked as young as he did in the beginning, if with the 5 0 clock shadow and the gray hair. But I love Anne Hathaway and I think she did a good job, although I am no judge on her British accent, me being a 'Merkin and all.

On the other note, I got to enjoy a few hours to myself, doing what I want to do. Just me, my starbucks, and ipod. It was fun just walking and sitting around with no one to bother me. Being a introvert but always around people can be a bit...tiring. Even when I'm home, I'm in the room alone all the time, but there's still people around in other rooms. This was just me. Enjoyed myself completely.

School starts in two days. Won't be so happy when I go to class. -_-

Vol 132

2011-08-27T19:43:00.002-04:00

This movie was released recently. One Day. Yeah, it's a romance movie that people make fun of me for wanting to see. Who cares. Anyway, I just read it and now i'm a bit....melancholy. Emma was a very likable person, whereas Dex on the other hand was more annoying, but it worked for him. The whole spoiled, rich, drunk act. Still want to see the movie, but maybe i'll get up and leave at a certain part. Also, not sure how well Anne Hathaway can pull off a Yorkshire accent. This novel was great because of the entire mix up of British English with American English. When she said he smelled of the wine they drank and fags I all but peed myself.

One second thought, maybe I won't see it. I've saw the preview and they've changed so damn much of the novel that I'm sure I'll be pissed off.

Vol 131

2011-08-26T08:42:00.002-04:00

First an unexpected and completely rare earthquake. Now, a not so rare and completely annoying hurricane heads our way. Hurricane Irene. My city is always hit hardest by the "I" hurricanes. About...eight years ago (?) it was Isabel. Yay east coast.

Vol 130

2011-08-23T16:55:00.003-04:00

The yankee's are coming. The yankee's are coming. They must be. Only reason I can come up with for an earthquake happening on the east coast. They said there was a tank leaking at my job, yet the opened it again to let people back in. That's fucking stupid. There's no way everything that needed to be checked was checked in the 45-50 minutes that we were outside. Seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow someone calls me and says that one of rhe fish/shark/dolphin tanks cracked completely.

Vol 129

2011-08-18T12:13:00.002-04:00

This big thing of stadium seats set up from the Grand Prix race next month is an eye sore. Seriously. But i guess people will tolerate anything when money is involved.

Vol 128

2011-07-15T17:18:00.001-04:00

Fancy little bugatti -whatever the hell that is- parked on Rodeo Drive.

Vol 127

2011-07-15T16:59:00.002-04:00

I completely forgot that I can upload to this from my phone. Well, i'll ratify that as of this moment. Currently, i'm eating lunch with okaasan, otousan, and Green at this place on Santa Monica Blvd and Canon Drive.

Vol 126

2011-07-07T23:36:00.003-04:00

So I fixed my laptop but it's only a temporary fix. It keeps bonking out on me. But unlike my desktop, which I also fixed...sorta, at least it cuts back on when it bonks out.
I just sold it to some random website that buys old, not-so-great laptops for $160.
With Apple, I got a credit card and just bought myself a macbook with a 3 year Warranty. I'm rather pissed this laptop crashed on me. I only had it for 3 years and I haven't abused and used it that bad. I mean, my desktop I've had since I was about 14-15, and now it finally died completely. But that's 8-9 years compared to 3. WTF!
Anyway, I really didn't want a credit card (now I have 2) but like my mother and aunt said, my credit sucks. That's not good. The only way to boost it (for someone like me) is to have a major credit card that I actually pay. I have the cellphone and house phone bills I pay, and I pay on time in full, but those are under my parent's name, so.....
If school didn't give so much online work, and if I didn't have some many people in my head (that makes me sound insane) I probably would hold off on buying a new computer.

On to another topic. The Z-Man? REALLY? ROFLMAO. I should have known where this was going the moment they traveled to Greece, but I wasn't thinking the Z-Man. I was expecting some random cameo of a LoTU character (not that I really expected it with this being an original inside joke fiction, but I was rereading a LoTU novel at the time). Oh man. *rubs hands together* All the fun I can have with the Z-Man being Him. I'll wait for my Mac before I start typing anything. I don't want this laptop to bonk on me again and I lose my work. That pisses me off.

Vol 125

2011-07-04T14:32:00.002-04:00

Okay. I kind of have a lot to say right now.
First; both my laptop and desktop have crashed and burned. So i'm without a computer until I come back from Los Angeles. Sucks. Guess i'll have to bum my mothers laptop.    

Second; I'm going back to LA next week. I'm staying at the same friend's place, my okaasan, but this time different friends will be joining us. Oohh, i'm excited. And now that my travel sickness doesn't bother me nearly as much, I can actually look forward to a trip.    

Third; Since my laptop has broken, I can no longer participate in camp Nanowrimo. Not happy about this. I was looking forward to working on Noor 2. I miss my characters. And because the computer's are broken, I have to pause my other work as well. Sucks again. But i'm a lazy author who will enjoy the reprieve.   

Fourth; Is it Sept 27th yet. Yes, that is my birthday but I'm looking forward to my date with Strider...and Kaia. Love those Harpies. I can't wait to see how each character reacts to him being her consort. Lol. Priceless.

Vol 124

2011-07-04T14:18:00.002-04:00

One of my random nicknames is, Monkey Lady Girl or for short just, Monkey Girlfriend.   This is a random test post.

Vol 123

2011-06-22T11:41:00.004-04:00

FINISHED!!!
Now moving on to a new one until someone *coughstiacoughs* decides to post.

At the Great Wolf right now about to blow my brains out.
I suddenly remember why I don't like children much.

Vol 122

2011-06-16T13:07:00.003-04:00

I'm starting to wonder if investing in a kindle (or any ereader for that matter) was a smart decision.
Some of the perks of shelling out so much for the reader was the in exchange it saves bookshelf space and you pay less for the ebook than the paper/hardback book.
But lately all the kindle ebooks have gone up in price.
They now cost the same as the paperback book.
At first, I could purchase a $7.99 paperback book on my kindle for as low as $4.59 to $6.99.
Not that much of a discount, but a discount none the less.
Now I'm paying the exact same amount, and I'm not happy about that.
In the end, I'm the one who lost because I'm still paying regular price after I spent hundreds of dollars to get the reader.
Lately, I've reverted back to paperback books because I can get them from Barnes and Nobles for $5 with my discount card.
Mah...this sucks.
I wonder if enough people complain about feeling cheated, maybe the prices will go down again.

Vol 121

2011-05-18T00:26:00.002-04:00

Exams end this week.

And I am completely OUT OF PATIENCE!

Vol 120

2011-03-27T19:59:00.003-04:00

TOOTHACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S: California was freaking awesome. Photo's up on facebook.

Vol 119

2011-03-15T15:30:00.003-04:00

The images that are plastered all over the news about the 8.9 earthquake that rocked the entire country causing a tsunami that destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousand and shifted the entire country 12 feet east are nerve wrecking.

I wonder if the view would still look the same.

According to some scientist, another earthquake of similar magnitude is expected and a volcano eruption.
Wow!

Everyone I know there is okay, but no clue about how their families are. Most of them are from Tokyo on down, which wasn't hit as hard as Sendai.

Sunset Coven 1

2011-03-10T15:45:00.008-05:00

Hey Jimes,
I said we should write something together and I know how you love your lore...so...I started for you.
You're up next. Pick up where you want and take it where you wish.
No communicating between us.
Lets see what we come up with.
And but of course I haven't edited yet. Class in 5 minutes.

The “Mother Road.” “Main street of America.” Or better yet, Route 66 was the most famous name for the 2448 mile stretch of road that crossed eight state borders. But to Jime, it was mostly “that shit piece of dirt that’s too fucking,” or “Jack Killer,” that she always managed to get stranded on whenever she rode down it.

She kicked the dust covered black with silver racing stripes 1987 Ford Mustang GT that decided it once again no longer wanted to work and puttered to a stop fifty miles from the nearest gas station. Though the black leather pointy-toed Christian Louboutin knee boots were strong, and they had better be with the money she shelled out for the custom fit slut-em-up boots, the rim of old Jack was stronger and she jammed her toe. She hissed, fangs out, and dropped a plethora of curse words she gathered over her 900 year old immortal life.
“Damn it Jack, if you don’t start up right now I’m going to gut you, slash your tires, load your tank with sugar, rip out your engine and eat it for breakfast.”

“Now that just won’t do,” Suri, Jime’s 24 year old baby witch niece, said dully from her position perched on the back of Jack, one cowboy boot clad foot swinging away. Suri watched Jime continue her physical and verbal assault on the car. Tendrils of fire engine red hair that took on the color of blood under the moonlight spilled from the neat high top ponytail as she slapped and kicked. “Try biting it, It’s about the only thing you haven’t done to poor old Jack yet,” she jeered. “That and shooti--” Before she managed to finished her sentence, Jime’s trusty 9mm pistol, that Suri had just to figure out how she managed to hide in those skin tight clothings, was out. She fired a round at the hood of the car.

The bullets bounced away leaving Jack unscratched thanks to the protective charm Suri managed to put it on after one of her aunts earlier fits of explosion. Suri shook her head and looked at the dessert mountain range in the distance.

“Why don’t you wave your little magic wand and do something,” Jime said with a sigh of resignation. She strolled around to the back of the car and leaned against Jack.

Suri snorted. “I don’t know the first thing about fixing cars. Magic or no magic.”
“Try something.” Jime pulled the ponytail holder out and shook her wild mane.
“Why? So I can break it and have Jack -the real Jack- coming after me for breaking his car? Isn’t it enough that you already stole it.”
Jime glanced at her niece and rolled her eyes. Still wet behind the ears, Suri didn’t know how to toss caution into the wind. But it was understandable, seeing as how she had just reached her immortality a few weeks ago. And Jime wasted no time trying to break her static-conservative niece. “Oh quit crying. Jack -the real Jack- doesn’t even know it was us who stole it.”
“You who stole it,” Suri corrected. “And sorry Jimez, but according to my crystal ball, Jack Jammers of the Sinn Jammers knows exactly who stole his baby.”
“You don’t have a crystal ball.”
“And you can’t walk daylight.”
Jime latched onto Suri’s arm and yanked her off the trunk of the mustang. “Fix it.”

Suri sighed and walked around to the front of the car. “I really don’t know how. No ones taught me car fixing spells.”
Jime went to stand next to Suri, both looking down at the hood of the car. “Well make something up.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know, but make it quick. I’m starting to smell wolf.”
Suri inhaled deeply, but there was no point. She was a witch, and witches didn’t have a keen scene of smell.
“Help me,” Suri said, growing slightly agitated. She didn’t like wolves. The way those little beady eyes would stare --she couldn’t help but curse them. Which was how they ended up in that barroom ball down in Louisiana a year ago with the local pack.
Jime placed a finger to her chin and pondered. “How about, ‘Jack start your engine, lets hit the rode and smash some...pidgins.”
Suri’s head rolled slowly to Jime. Her eye twitched. “That’ll be as effected as me saying, “Jack be mimble, Jack be fast, start your engine and punch the gas.”

The mustang roared to life, it’s lights flashing on, tail pipe puffing smoke, and shot backwars down the road at break neck speed.
“Way to go, Suri. I knew you had it in you. Next time, tell it to go the right direction.” Jime ran after the car, moving faster than she should have been able to in those heels. Oh the wonderful gifts that blessed the cursed Vampires, Suri thought. Now there’s an oxymoron for you.
“Next time don’t leave it in reverse. Wrong direction” Suri yelled, running after Jack and Jime. She ran for a good mile and a half before she caught up with Jime who had caught up to Jack and was waiting inside behind the drivers seat.
“Wolves coming from that direction. “Jime pointed in the direction they were suppose to be driving. “Poor Jack doesn’t like the funky, flea-bags, do you Jackie?” she cooed, rubbing the steering wheel. Jime whipped the car into the other direction and sped off down the Mother Road.

Vol 118

2011-03-08T13:04:00.005-05:00

So, Tia, you suggested (more like forcetolddemanded) I read SEP's novels in order starting with Glitter Baby.
And I have.
Finished it today.
And I have to say I hated them all.
The adults were completely unlikable and irresponsible.
Belinda was a pain in everyone's ass.
I don't like dependent women.
It's not dependent women even, it's her complete lack of individuality.
She feeds out of the success of others instead of working hard herself.

Lets not even start with Alexi.
He could have been such a likable character.
I even understood why he made her give Fleur away.
But to treat everyone with such contempt, to ruin that girl over a fecking car...TRYING TO CONVINCE HER TO HAVE HIS CHILD. His own fecking stepdaughter.
He's nucking futs.
And I just knew Belinda would do that when he had the second stroke.

It was funny how no one seemed to care about Michel until halfway through the book.
He just disappeared as a teen and they couldn't give less of a feck.
At least he and Fleur worked out their bitterness.
It was so hilarious when he tried to protect her from Jake, when Jake would rip him six ways to Sunday.

I don't even want to beginning with Fleur and Jake.
Some of her plight I can understand.
She doesn't think she's as good looking as people say she is.
Hell, I don't think I'm as good looking as people say I am.
I seriously stare in the mirror and wonder what they see, like Fleur.
And I hate taking pictures even if people say I'm photogenic, like Fleur.
So that much of her personality I could understand and sympathize with.

I'll just say that she over reacted back then.
I mean, it's understandable to leave but not for 6 years.
And not run into the man who has hated you all your life and suddenly is so sweet to you.
She was so naive.
Just as naive as Jake.
I was like, "aww" when he cried.
Why?
Guys crying...hot guys crying...such a beautiful sight.
Unnerves me like nothing else, but can be so refreshing.
Does that sound sadistic of me?

Anyway, I'll just say that Jake is freaking hilarious.
Sundance Kid, really? REALLY?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Vol 117

2011-03-08T00:20:00.002-05:00

I'm all jittery like a dope fiend right now.
I wonder if it's because of the excessive amounts of caffeine I drink daily or anxiety.
I prefer the caffeine.
My anxiety attacks are stuff out nightmares.

Vol 116

2011-02-22T14:16:00.003-05:00

Do I truly need to point out what is wrong with this?
Do I?
This isn't even the picture that I wanted to use, but I can't help but read this, laugh at the idiocy of it, and share it.
And here I thought I lived in the land of the free and home of the brave.
Talk about delusional bullshit.

Vol 115

2011-02-14T22:09:00.002-05:00

I've never been good at note taking.
Maybe because I'm not sure if what "I" believe is important is actually important to the instructor who creates the exams.
I mean, it takes me 3-4 hours to read ONE chapter of a textbook and take notes.
And my notes can go on for days.
Example: The image above is the textbook I use for my Child Development Psychology class.
Of the 30 or so pages for chapter 3, I've only taken notes for the first 15 pages and already have 4 typed pages of notes.
See for yourself.

Chapter 3

Genes are only one part of a complex developmental system
Period of development prior to birth - prenatal period
Development involves differentiation - process by which parts of an organism progressively take on specialized forms and functions.
Development involves repeated reorganization and qualitative change
New structures and capacities emerge in an orderly way from those that existed before
Through childhood and adolescences, human development is orderly, cumulative, and directional

GENETIC PROCESSES

Genetic instructions are stored in chromosomes, which are located in the nucleus. Chromosomes are composed of long molecules of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) , twisted double helix.
Structures allows them to unzip down the middle and give exact copies of themselves.
Gene is simply a segment of DNA that contains the code for producing a particular protein.
Human genome, complete DNA sequence, contained 30K-40K genes.
Life begins with one cell (fertilized egg) that contains one set 46 chromosomes
Cells that make up the body, not including sperm or egg cells, are somatic cells
Somatic cells are formed during mitosis :
Mitosis is the process of cell division where the parent cells are duplicated to form daughter cells.
During the process of meiosis, the number of chromosomes from the egg and sperm cells are reduced to 23.
DNA is a germ cell (cells from which egg and sperm cells are produced).Germ cells duplicate itself, resulting in double stranded chromosomes.
First division: Mitosis, cell divides, resulting in each of the two cells receiving 23 double stranded chromosomes.
Second division: Meiosis, cells divide yielding 4 new cells, each with a single set of 23 chromosomes.
In males, all four cells become mature sperm.
In females, only one becomes a mature egg.
Gametes, mature reproductive cells, have half of the normal number of chromosomes.
Meiosis also involves crossing over (exchange of corresponding segments of genetic material between homologous chromosomes during meiosis) and random assortment (shuffling of chromosomes from the mother and father that occurs during meiosis when homologues separate in preparation for cell division).
Development is a result between interplay between genes and environment.
Human gender begins at the moment of conception
The sex chromosomes, number 23, determines gender. XX = female. XY = male
A critical period is a limited time when some parts of a developing organism is susceptible to influences that can bring about specific and permanent changes
Sexual differentiation begins in the seventh week. In the first six weeks, the primitive gonad (sex gland) tissues look the same in both X and Y chromosomes.
In presences of SRY (sex determing region of Y chromosome) testes are form. If no SRY gene is present, ovaries form.
After sex organ is formed, development is shaped by hormones (chemicals produced in the body that regulate the physiological processes)
Once testes are partially formed, the secret male sex hormones (androgens)
Form penis
Presence or absences of androgens is the key to physical gender development
Alleles are alternate forms of particular genes.
Genotype: genetic makeup
Phenotype: physical traits
Homozygous: identical alleles
Heterozygous: two different alleles
Sex-linked traits: Recessive genetic traits that are carried on the X chromosome and are commonly expressed only in males
Example: Red-green blindness and hemophilia
Polygenic: influenced by multiple genes
Examples: Height, weight, skin color, and intelligence
Few traits are directly determined by genes acting alone.
Genes always act within a context that influences how they are expressed.

CONCEPTION

Conception depends on appropiate timing of a chain of events
Ovum: egg cell
When ovum is ready for fertilization, ovulation (release of an ovum into one of the fallopian tubes, the passage that leads to the uterus) occurs.
Journey down fallopian tubes takes several days
If ovum is not fertilized within first 24 hours, it disintegrates upon reaching the uterus.
The union between a sperm and an ovum results in a zygote
Sometimes a woman’s ovaries will release more than one ovum at a time.
If two ova are fertilized by two different sperm, the result is dizgotic (two zygote) twins: faternal twins
Twins are no more similar genetically than any other two siblings
When a single fertilized egg splits into two separate unit, monozygotic (one zygote) twins are formed and are genetically identical.

PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

Prenatal period - conception to birth is approximately 38 weeks
Three major periods:

Germinal period: tiny, self-contained cluster of cells becomes implanted in the lining of the mother’s uterus, and cell differentiation begins

Conception - 2weeks

The hallow, ball-like structure into which a zygote develops in the first week of conception is called the blastocyst

Embryoblast: a groups of cells at one end of the blastocyst that develops into the embryo

The rest of the blastocyst that forms into the embryo’s life-supporting system is the trophoblast

Placenta: mass of tissue that supplies oxygen and nutrients to the embryo and carries away waste (starts developing during week 2)
Umbilical cord: cord containing blood vessels that connects the embryo with the placenta (attaches during week 3)

Amniotic sac: fluid-filled sac that surrounds and protects the embryo and the fetus

Implantation of the zygote into the lining of the uterus

Embryonic period: major organs and body parts develop, organism particularly susceptible to damage from harmful environment

Weeks 3-8

Once zygote is implanted it is called an embryo (developing organism during weeks 3-8)

Rapid cell division and differentiation.

Embrynoic cell differentiation:

Endoderm cells develop inyo internal organs suck as the stomach, liver, lungs

Mesoderm cells become muscles, bone, and blood

Ectoderm cells will form the central nervous system, sensory organs, and skin

Organogenesis: formation of organs and other major body parts

Embryonic induction: chemical interaction between cells of different tissues that triggers developmental changes in the embryo

Development process from the head downward (cephalocaudal development)

Development process from the center of the body outward to the extremities (proximodistal development)

Child is most vulnerable to developmental errors

See page 96 about prenatal brain development

Fetal period: Increases in size and becomes a moving, sleeping, waking being

Weeks 9 - Birth
Fetus: developing organism during weeks 9-38 of prenatal development
Major body parts grow rapidly and become refined in structure
By week 10, nervous system is mature enough so that the fetus will flex its entire trunk if any part of its body is touched
By week 12. moves arms, legs, swallows and breathes
By week 18, responses become specific to touched area
Develops a regular sleep-wake cycle

MOTHER’S EXPERIENCE

Trimesters: three-month periods that correspond to changes in the mother’s experience of pregnancy

PROBLEMS IN PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

Congenital defect/birth defect: Abnormality that is present at birth
Single-gene disorders are called Mendelian disorders, disorders produced by inheritance of a single gene.
Most result of inheriting a recessive allele from each parent
Example: Sickle-cell anemia (painful and potentially fatal blood disorder)
Tay-Sachs disease (steady deterioration of nervous system leading to death before age 2)
Chromosomal abnormalities occur when errors in meiosis produce sperm or egg cells with extra, missing, or damaged chromosomes.
Over 90 are miscarried
Sex chromosome abnormalities occurs when a baby receives an abnormal number of sex chromosomes

Vol 114

2011-02-09T16:34:00.004-05:00

So I went to the doctors office earlier today.
It's a block away from the University of Maryland Law School, right across from the School of Social work.
The picture above is the law library.
While walking by, I thought, "I wonder if Ian Carter is somewhere in there sitting at a desk with a lamp, hair tussled...Maybe I should go ask if Ian Carter is there."

Had a nice laugh.

P.S: No longer screaming. Nothing is wrong.

Vol 113

2011-02-09T02:24:00.004-05:00

I always thought this was a very creepy painting.
Sadly, it is the best picture to describe my current mood.
Total freak out and screaming.
I won't say why.
Don't want to curse/jinx anything.

But, I suddenly thought of another reason for the scream.
Lena, you fecking turtle.
How dare you stay in LA a day/two after I leave.
It doesn't matter that I arrive a day before you.
So not fair~~!!!
I would change my plane ticket if I was willing to pay the $75 fee.
But I'm not.
That $75 can go on a ton of books.
Speaking of which, I need to update my total spending amount.
Should I add the price of the Kindle?
If so, my total this year on books is already pushing $400.

Vol 112

2011-02-04T20:17:00.003-05:00

I bought an Kindle today.
I've wanted one for a long time.
I asked my mother to buy me one for my birthday last year, but she didn't want to spend $200 on it.
So today, I caved.
It's not so bad.
I'm search a techno savvy, I can put books on here that I purchased from other websites.
It takes some manipulation to do so, but I get it done.
I won't explain it.
Just go to Amazon if you're curious.

I also purchased my plane ticket to Los Angeles.
I'm going next month for about 4-5 days.

Actually, now that I think about it, I spent close to $1000 today.
YIKES!

Vol 111

2011-02-03T15:25:00.003-05:00

BORED OUT MY MIND!

I'm so bored waiting for my class to start I'm playing with my webcam and creating a collage of some sorts. This is just the start of it.

Vol 110

2011-01-31T10:24:00.005-05:00

So I've been reading the Tairen Soul series on and off this month.
This series would probably gain a large audience if it wasn't classified as Romance.
When I first looked for it at Barnes and Nobles, I didn't look in that section, and was surprised when I found it there.
It's more Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
I finally got around to reading book 2, and I liked it.
Go figure.
I almost like everything.
But there was one scene that made me vomit in mouth.
Purple Prose in its Prime.
This scene was when Rowan asked Rain what did it feel like for the first bond with his truemate to take place.
You see, while the Fey can fuck around and screw whoever they want, or even take a mate, a truemate is rare, something all Fey want, but most will never find.
Anyway, I think I vomited again just now typing this quote.

"What does it feel like?" Rowan asked...
"Peace," he said at last. "Like waking in a field of soft grass on a warm spring day and knowing for the first time exactly who you are and what your purpose is in the world. and humbleness, as if you were standing before the Bright Lord with all the dark ugliness of your soul laid out before you, and despite everything, he showers you with light until every last stain fades away." A smile spread slowly across his face. "Flame, too--especially under the effects of her weave--but I'll say no more about that. Some things should remain private between a Fey and his mate.

-C.L Wilson The Lady of Light and Shadows

Vol 109

2011-01-26T23:03:00.003-05:00

It snowed overnight yesterday.
Schools were canceled today, although there wasn't much snow out this morning.
But it started to snow again sometime mid afternoon.
Or more like hailed.
Now it's snowing again.
My classes are suppose to start tomorrow.
I hope my university closes because I will not be going even if they open.
No way I want to go out in that.
But my school can be jerks at times and stay open despite it looking a hot mess outside.

One class already posted assignments on Blackboard so I just spent the last 4 hours doing Intermediate Algebra.
Yes, I know. Sucks!
I mean seriously, I haven't taken a math class since I was a teenager. Just so you know, I'll be 23 this fall. You get the picture.
Most of it I still remember, but when it comes to word problems and graphing, I suck.
I was stuck on the word problem portion for an hour and a half and didn't get a single problem
Or I would get one, but you have to get 2 in a row to move on, and I would miss the second and have to start over.
The assignments for chapters 1-3 have to be complete by the 5th of Feb.
I already finished chapter 1 today, besides that word problem thing.
If classes are canceled tomorrow, I'll work on chapters 2-3.

Besides that math class, my semester schedule consist of Anthropology 211. It's a culture course and UMBC didn't accept either of my previous two culture classes when I transferred. They said those classes didn't match any there offered.
LIARS!!!
I sat them and showed them the syllabus for my music and health course, and they matched damn near word-for-word with a course they offer there.
Anyway, and I have three Psychology classes: child development, health psychology, and the history of psychology.
That last is a level 4 class, so nothing but papers, papers, and more papers.

Today, besides doing homework, I spent the most of my time watching Disney movies.
Classics.
First I watched The Lion King as I went over my Health Psychology book.
Then a few hours later I put on Aladdin as I did math homework.
When that went off I watched Mulan, which just went off 10 minutes ago.
I don't have any other Disney movie that I want to watch.
I need to go buy Pocahontas, maybe Beauty and the Beast.
Anastasia as well.

So see, I can go a day without reading.
Almost drove me insane but...
I guess I should crawl into bed now and force myself to sleep.
I need to develop a new sleep routine.
Although I only have classes twice a week, I still don't think staying up until 2-3am is wise during the school semester.
Some days I'm up until 4-5am.

Lets just hope this snow last for a few more hours.
I hate snow, but when it gets me out of class I love it.

What's new?

Vol 108

2011-01-26T02:00:00.005-05:00

More so than Shadowfever, this doesn't seem complete.
This -I liked, but that's a given. I a fae addict- leaves off when Ash and Puck (surprise surprise) going on another adventure.
Meghan is off taking on her new role as ruler for now.
But Ash's journey seems to open up something else entirely.
I can't seem to remember what promise he made that he has to fill.
Or why that would involve finding Grimalkin.
I almost cried with that cats farewell.
I loved that snarky feline.

I know this was the end of the Iron Fey series, but I think Julie should write another novella, give us more closure.
Or maybe that's just me being greedy for more.
This is one of the only series why I liked all the characters.
Usually female teenage heroines annoy me to all end, but not Meghan.
I adored her the entire journey.

Edit:
Imagine the scream I had to suppress at 3am when I learned that this actually isn't the last book of the series like it was first stated, and that another book will be out called, The Iron Knight, and that book is told through Ash's POV. *scream*

It's a whole book right? It's not simply a novella right? It's listed as The Iron Fey 4. That means it's a complete novel right? The other novella, Winter Passage, was listed as 1.5. Since this isn't 3.5 but 4, that means it's a full length novel right? Oh please, oh please, oh please let it be. I would kill to know Ashallyn's thoughts. Especially where Puck is concerned. Those two will never be the enemies they speak they are. Their old friendship is still there.

Vol 107

2011-01-23T03:25:00.005-05:00

Topaz! I liked this.
(Will edit this entry tomorrow night after work. Or tomorrow before work since the bastard children like to be little hell-raisers and wake me up at insanely early hours of the morning. Besides, it's 3:30am. I should be sleep.)

Edit:

Beverly Jenkins is an historical romance author.
It's not the romance that I like.
All that crap is the same.
And I'm seriously sick of females melting like candy bars (I'll come back to this later), and guys being oh-so perfect (I'll come back to this as well.)

Beverly's leads are black, at least the ones I read and assume all her leads might be black.
While I read Topaz, a story about a newspaperwoman who ends up being given away to a black Seminole to pay off her fathers debt (crazy ol man), I had to stop and google a lot.
And I mean a lot.
Beverly litters her stories with so many names, events, locations, and dates I wanted to know if they were facts or just fictional facts created for the story.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered what she wrote was real.

Now I'm of African and Native American decent, but I know pretty much nothing of Native American history, and the African American history I was force to suffer through during grade schooling was always about the same people: Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Fredrick Douglas, etc, and so on and said forth.
To tell the truth, but time I got in 12th grade I absolutely hated African American history.
I was sick of learning about the same people over and over.
There's so much more that could have been taught, but it never was.

I learned more while reading Topaz than I did in school.
And I actually enjoyed reading it.
Now, I have a little knowledge about Black Indians and Indian Wars.
Even if it's just a little knowledge, it's more than what I learned before.
And they way Jenkin incorporates it, how she ties her characters to it -excellent.

After reading Topaz I read Always and Forever.
That was Blake's and Grace's story, two characters from Topaz.
Beverly gives a little pirate and ship-slave history in this book, as well as the worries and concerns that someone who isn't able to trace their roots would feel.

The heroines of the stories are always something that during the, 1884, would be considered absurd.
Katherine (Topaz) was a newspaperwoman. Back then it was still frowned upon for females to have jobs. No one wanted to hire a newspaperWOMAN, especially a black one. But Kate was intelligent and highly literate, familiar with more text than anyone else.
Grace (Always and Forever) was a banker. Yep, that's right. Good in math and had very strong backbone to take on any male.
She definitely was more than Blake expected her to be.
And Loreli, I have yet to read her story but she is in both Topaz and Always and Forever, was a gambler. A female gambler. Talk about no-no. She was so out of the norm that even some women turned their noses up at her.
And one thing about the women in this story, no matter the race, they pretty much always stuck together.
In their eyes, women as a whole were still belittled, not just woman of one race.

Anyway, as you can see, there is a lot to gain from these stories.
It's not your typical romance.
Not even your typical historical romance.
I read a few others but this author is the only author I've read who used real facts.
Hats off to you Madam.

Oh, I didn't forget about the candy bars and oh-so perfects. I'm saving that for a completely different post.

Vol 106

2011-01-17T23:53:00.008-05:00

This book will be released January 18th 2011, which is in 5 minutes.
I preordered it on the kindle back in July.
But I still won't get it into the wee hours of the morning.
I'm so impatient for it.
What made MacKayla scream.
I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight until I get this and find out.
Doesn't matter much to me.
I'm usually up until 3am any.
Lets just hope I don't have to wait that long before amazon decides it wants to send it to me.
Tia, be on the lookout for an email.

Edit: As expected. The book was released west coast time, so I got it at 3am.
Yes, I was up for it. And but of course I started to read it.
Wonder what magic trick will be pulled out the hat this time.
All I know is that it better come soon.

Edit2: Somebody has some 'splaining to do.

****SPOILER ALERT****

Edit3: So I finished the book 6am this morning.
This book was the same length as Millie's Fling, yet it took me twice as long.
Weird, since I wanted this one so badly, I expected to devour it in a matter of hours.

Man, there is so much I want to say about this book.
First I'll say, FINALLY! Answers to all question.
This novel is like a whirlwind. It just keeps spinning and spinning.
Because it's the last novel of the series, you know that you'll get answers for all the questions you have.
What you don't realize when you first open the book is how many more questions you'll ask.
Moening saved every answer for the end. Which drove me insane.
When you finally think, "Ah! An answer," you soon realize it's not an answer at all.

So much is discovered. We finally learn about all that is Barrons and his men. Why Barrons would never answer any question about himself was because of a code he and his men have. But damn, they are truly the baddest and most cursed MFer's of the land. To never die??? Ever?? Of course they can be killed, Barrons died a number of times in this book, but he will always come back. Unless he's V'Krucked!

And I like V'Kruck.
He and the other hunters were a nice breath of fresh air...in a way.
All they wanted was to be free and fly.
Fuck a war.

What motivates the Fae.

But the biggest question of it all was, "Who and what is MacKayla?"
Another bigger question, "Where is the Unseelie King?"
I'll just say, you'd never would have question who the Unseelie King is based on previous books. But I had a feeling I knew who it was.
I just never suspected MacKayla was a distance extension of him.
Like a grand daughter.

And Cruce, Cruce, Cruce.
I knew it was you.
I knew it for a while now, I just refused to believe it.
I think I knew back in book 3 it was you, but refused to believe it.
You dirty little bastard.
Even after all you've done, you're still on second best...or maybe 3rd.
MacKayla is a factor bigger than you believe, being the Unseelie King's long lost not-really grand daughter and all.

But you have to wonder, just have fecking strong is the Unseelie King.
Even after what Cruce did, he still was no match.

Well I'm glad that little old bitch is dead.
She should have been killed a long time ago, especially after what she made Dani do.
Poor Dani.
Hopefully Mac want kick her ass too much.
We'll never know.
At least there's a good ending.
The world isn't back to normal yet, nor is the threat completely neutralized. As long as no one opens that tomb or MacKayla doesn't go off the deep end, they should be safe from the destruction of the world.
It's a start.
Rome wasn't built in a day, you know.

Edit4: Some random thing I just noticed.
This is the first Fae series whose courts leaders as the Unseelie King and the Seelie Queen,
It has always been the Unseelie Queen and the Seelie King.
I like this Unseelie King. He's not rotten like most Unseelie leadership (Queens) are portrayed.

Vol 105

2011-01-16T20:30:00.003-05:00

But is it really being a stuck up bitch when the person spoken to is obviously not up to standard?
I mean really? Is it?
If it's freezing outside and a guy wearing a thin hoodie and socks with flip-flops approaches a girl who is decently dressed, and she rejects him, is she stuck up?
If the same guy is 18 and the girl is 22, and she rejects him, does that means she's stuck up?
If she laughs in a friendly manner as she rejects him, is that stuck up?
I mean, she could always be rude and tell the fuckwit tosser to get lost like she wanted to.
If the kid is persistent, not taking no for an answer, is it her fault if she starts to feel annoyed and answer him with clip words?
I don't think so.
If the girl is a natural smart mouth, but instead of slashing into him like she usually would, she just laughs it all off, is that really snobbish of her?
If she finds the recent high school graduate amusing because he has no chance, is that arrogant?
Is it her fault that she can speak properly and not like a hoodlum as the 18 year old does?
Can she be called condescending because she's educated and he's not?
If his pick up lines were whack as hell and played out, is it her fault she cut him down from the start?
I don't think so.
But hey, what do I know!
I'm just a stuck up, snobbish, condescending bitch.
(Not the words the kid called me, but the words I've been called by numerous people.)

Vol 104

2011-01-15T00:09:00.007-05:00

Something I realized recently.
In context of size and complexion, while people may think I'm the lucky one, in reality I am not.
At least I never saw it that way.
I'm skinny. As simple as that.
Better yet, in the words of...everyone, I'm tiny.
I'm that stick figure uncurvy one.
At least I am for a black girl.
To my non-black friends, I'm shapely. *rolls eyes*
But despite my size, no matter where I look, on TV or in novels, there is never someone similar to me.
There is always the girl with the ample breast, shapely rear, thick thighs, hips, etc...or the outright BBW.
There might be a "fit" character, but never a skinny one.
Not unhealthy skinny. Just naturally small.
I eat more than any women and most men, but on a bad day I'm still a size 3.
And the more I eat, the smaller I get.
I'm not taking about eating salads and wheat thins.
Those are good, but give me something deep fried and smothered in chocolate.
I hardly ever work out either.
There is no need.
When I do, it's for muscle tone, not to lose weight.

On to another black person thing.
TV has an steady supply of their brown women.
Not dark.
Not even light.
Just brown.
And is that fair?
Where are the dark beauties or the high yellow ladies?
I'm curious.
I'm a high yellow, but I'm actually curious about where the dark beauties are?
There's all over the place in novels, but besides the two or three popular actresses, where are the others?
I know people think lighter is better and that's just foolish.
Things like this...I notice but it never really means anything until it stands out a lot.
I'm so immune to things like race that I only notice it when it really stands out or someone points it out.
Well, these are things that are starting to stand out as someone pointed them out.

And as the high yellow, skinny chick, I'm suppose to remain quiet.
My friends look at me and say what right do I have to complain?
But I have just as much a right as any other.

Things like this should mean nothing, yet they do.
Instead of big girls targeting me or me targeting them, we should all target those who say one is better than the other.

This isn't just a black thing.
Other people have it as well.
The tall vs the short.
Blond hair vs Red
Blue/Green eyes vs Brown.
It's annoying and rather petty, don't you think?

Everyone has their complexes, right?
Why make fun of someone because they're different?
Doesn't that just show how insecure you may be?
That's how I see it.
It's hilarious to see how many things really keep people divided.
(Not me. I accept everyone...or almost everyone. I don't like smelly people)
Things that don't matter.
Things that only a .1 percent gene difference determines.
Stuff that are measure by letters and numbers.
It just shows how silly people are.
(Again, not me. I accept everyone, except smelly people. And people who steal my stuff)
You want to know how accepting I am.
Right now I'm watching Ninja Assassin.
This movie is utterly, completely, terrible.
It sucks.
Majorly.
But I'm watching it because I'm accepting, and I think that Bi Rain is some smexy, Asian, eye candy.
Man, he can move.
They trained him hard for this role.
He looks nice.
His short hair is better though.
(Don't you agree Tia?)
See! See how accepting I am.
Want another example?
I stayed up all last night watching Lord of the Rings?
Not just because Legolas is slice raisin bread, which I love more than plain old slice bread, and not because Aragon is one of the hottest older men alive, but because of Liv Tyler's role as Arwen.
I adored her.
...I guess these aren't good examples. ;)
Well I can say that no matter where I am, work, school, outside, I have never treated anyone differently because of things that were predetermined and out of their control.
Now, I will openly admit that I am a rude bitch when it comes to one type of person.
And that's a pervert.
My tongue is sharp and I rip them to shreds.
The life choices they make are inhumane and I can't stand that.
My point is that whether you're white, black, hispanic, asian, fat, skinny, tall, short, blue hair, blond eyes, (lol), any so on, I don't and won't treat you differently.
I treat you all the same.
Like a bunch of annoying ass relatives.

Psst!
Whatever.
Time to get back to my novel that has a BBW as the main character.
(Her friend makes me want to punch her in the face. She's a bigot in denial. Why is it always the light skin, skinny ones portrayed this way? *smh*)

You know, one of my favorite novels is a romance novel whose main character is only 5 feet 1.
I've yet to see a story where the character was I size 2-3.

I should stop rambling now.
I have to wake up for work in less than 5 hours.
Insomnia is a biznitch.

Vol 103

2011-01-14T13:45:00.025-05:00

When 23 year old orphaned, virgin, Royal meets I-have-no-clue-how-old-either-29-or-39-but-lets-go-with-39 year old Dmitry, all her prayers are answered.
What Dmitry offers the black, beautiful, recent college graduated is too good to be true...Well, because it is.
He offers her a job to complete run and manage his new clothing store with a 60K salary, an apartment, tons of expensive gifts and even a chauffeur.
Sounds unbelievable right?
It is.
Because what Royal doesn't know about Dmitry is that he's actually a Russian Mafia boss.
Oh snap!
But Dmitry and Royals love-love relationship sails while, with the occasional interruption, until a vindictive brother comes along with the plot to kill Dmitry.

I haven't finished the book yet. I'm about a third of the way through.
I stumbled across it last night while doing my nightly book search on Amazon for kindle books.
This is a little different from my normal read.
I tend to stay away from crime novels.
My conscience is to open for this type of book.
It makes it hard to sleep at night because I over think things.
But I actually look forward to reading this series.
I know Dmitry's book is first, not sure who is second, but Anatoly's novel comes on later this month.
He's a quiet one, but his silence is LOUD!
And I just love the silent yet deadly types.
When they're not silent and deadly with me.

Edit: Oh god!
I'm at the first kill scene.
I wonder who the leak is.
Will find out in 2 sentences.
*shudders*

(10 seconds later) Edit 2:
COLD. BLOOD.ED
Anatoly is scary.
tsk tsk tsk

(2 minutes after that) Edit 3:
Nuh uh Dmitry.
You're slipping.
And your boys noticed.
Better check yourself at the door next time.

(1 minute later) Edit 4:
Cory and Renee, for your own safety, SHUT UP!

(4 minutes later) Edit 5:
Ivan is such an ass!
Damn, I want to punch him in the face.

(23 seconds later) Edit 6:
I've never been so happy to see Anatoly in my life.
I can almost cry.

(2 more minutes later) Edit 7:
I'm still only a third into the book, and this is getting tense.

(Side note comment) Edit 8:
Someone, please, get Cory out of the middle of this gun/stare off.

(5 minutes later) Edit 9:
Wow! Never stand between a Russian Mafia boss and his little, young, black, girlfriend.
People die.
*shaking my head*

(shortly afterward) Edit 10:
Royal, if you truly love the man and want to stay with him despite it all, you can.
No one is blaming you.
But please honey, stop being fucking naive.
You know he's Mafia.
Renee and Cory even voiced their opinion that he's Mafia.
Cory is too...adamant.
Yet you still deny it.
*smh* Don't let all the money and fancy lifestyle blind you.
It could be gone in a flash.

(15 minutes later) Edit 11:
NO!
I'm afraid.
I don't want to read anymore.
I have a really bad feeling about this next part.
Nooooo!
Please. Please. Please.
I'm going to cry if something happens to him.

(One second later) Edit 12:
WHAT! I knew it!
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
I said he was a little to brave for...well, him.
tsk tsk tsk
Still like him though.
Even if he's a sneaky.

(meanwhile) Edit 13:
Anatoly.
He's a very intimidating kid.
I'll call him a kid, because despite his cold demeanor and scary approach, he's only 20. Maybe 21 by now.
Point is, he's someone I would hesitate to approach, but never back down from.
That's the only way you'd get his respect.
...But probably the fastest way to have him shoot you.

(About an hour later) Edit 14:
Wait! WHAT?
Dmitry...Cory...
Now this I did not expect.
I was panting with worry just now.
But really Cory, make a choice.
You can't have the best of both worlds.

(Even later) Edit 15:
Freaking out is completely understandable, Royal.
I agree with you.
Screaming and fighting is what any sane person would have done.
Stabbing...yep.
Still agree.
Easily forgiving...not so much.

(Finally finished:) Edit 16:
No matter what you say Royal, I would have like to see Ivan suffer tremendously.
He got off way too easily.
ENTIRELY TOO EASY!
Poor Royal.
At least she still has Dmitry.

Glad that's over with.
*I'm getting ansty over Anatoly's book.
Can't wait.
Hopefully his book will be properly edited.
I mean seriously, there were a hell of a lot of SPaG issues in this story.
I understand Dmitry's and Anatoly's habit of skipping over words.
English isn't their first language.
But even Royal would do it or you'll find missing words in the narration.
Rather annoying really.
And the kindle format had a tendency to smashwordstogetherlikethis.
That's just hard to read.
But I can only fault the grammar so much.
My own stories are terrible.
You should see the hard edit I've been working on for one.
The entire paper is red marked.

Even with all that, I still loved this.
I mean, I've read tons and tons of IR romance novels.
But this one is definitely one of my favorites.
Top 3 after Tammy William's Choices and Blindsided.
The thing I liked most was Royal.
I'm so sick and tired of reading stories with black female characters and not relating to them at all.
Granted, I'm not an orphan or have shot a man before, but Royal and I are a year apart, and some of the things that she feels I understand.
She has an innocence to her that I relate to.
I grew up in the hood, but I have morals and goals.
Her self respect was off the hook.
You go Royal.
You don't find many female leads like that.

NEXT!
Lets go Anatoly.
I pray his fight with his cousin is better than the fight between Ivan and Dmitry.
God I wish I could torture Ivan.
*Yes Yes. I'm a little protective over Royal. So what*

Tía, you know I'm sending this to you, don't you?
Lets enjoy the Russian's together.

Side note:
I know a bit of Russian.
But that's no surprise.
I know a bit of over 8 languages.
I wonder if Latrivia speaks Russian or if she had to research it for this novel....?

Vol 102

2011-01-11T11:38:00.005-05:00

I have been up for over 24 hours, and I have never been more energetic.
That is all thinks to Jill Mansell and Millie's Fling.

Now, I'm a girl of humor.
If you can't make me laugh, you suck at life.
If you can make me laugh...rock on!
And man oh man, did Jill having me laughing from 12:30am to 11am.
(Yes, I'm that slow a reader, but this novel was freakishly long.)

A lot of reviews, although score this with extremely high marks, don't do justice to this book.
Me, I like when the characters in the beginning are also in the end.
I don't like when you introduce me to Billy and Mandy and by the end of the story it'll be Mandy and Dave, or Billy and Susan.
It's annoying.
I usually fall for the characters I first meet, and I'd like the see those same characters at the end.

Well, Mansell did a fantastic job with characterization in this novel.
Besides Hester, who was annoying flawed in a realistic way, almost all the characters were lovable.
Except that cheating snake Gile...Gail...whatever his name was, and his mistress.

Anyway, the story starts off with Millie's at-the-time boyfriend proposing that they move in together.
But she wasn't listening to him at all, her intention focused on the would-be suicidal victim contemplating jumping of a cliff.
She ends up taking the lady out of it, Orla, a famous romance novel.
As a consequence, that boyfriend left her stranded on the cliff.

I'm going to say that the story has two starts.
Start one is when Millie and Hester find a wallet.
They search the wallet to find out who it belonged to.
Finding a cell number in the wallet, Millie calls it and plays a joke that goes horrible wrong and leaves her with an enormous amount of guilt.
She apologizes, but still feels guilty.

A few days later, guilt even stronger than before, Millie's house phone bill arrives.
Relief, the number she had forgot, she now can get from the bill and call.
But she starts off with another joke, this one landing her with a not-a-date-just-to-be-clear.

The second start of the story is when Orla decides she's going to write her next novel with a different approach.
It'll be realistic, about real people. real life situations, and Millie is her start, with Hester, Lucas, and a few others as subplots.
Millie warns Orla that her life is rather boring, but no fear...Orla has a well of innocently manipulating everything.

As much as I want to, I won't tell the story.
I'll just say, LUCAS IS THE GREATEST EVER!
What little scenes he has, he leaves you with an impression.
A serious impression.
What he did to Hester...there isn't a character alive who can ravel that move.
I screamed with laughter for 10 whole minutes.
And this was at 6:30am.
I adored him.
Seriously.
Really.
Best character alive.
Con as well.
But mainly Lucas.
And of course Hugh, who was an absolutely doll, even with that jackass of a move he pulled.
Millie was such an easy-going normal girl...with cheap shoes.
But her father and Judy as fantastic.
Her mom...not so much.
Her mother was really the most annoying character around.

There are some clapping moment in this story.
Orla's scorned wife scene was great.
I had to clap for her.
Her shocked-utterly attracted to the enemy scene as well.
She was such a lovely person.
She didn't deserve any of the stuff her husband put her through.

Lucas also has a few scenes.
His reputation as a playboy is widely known, but when he actually shows morals and give sound advice...*claps*
He's so full of himself.
What he does TO Hester FOR Hester...as hilarious as it was...*claps*

And despite Hugh's total asshole scene, he makes you squirm in a good way.
Never once did I feel bad for his situation.
He's not the type of character who would accept pity.
He was so light, airy, and found humor in everything.
Which was great because he turned all of Millie's embarrassing scenes into humor for her.
Especially the second phone conversation.

Anyway, being up for 27 hours now is starting to kick in.
I can't remember what I was going to type next besides, GO READ IT!
Yes, YOU!
You're know I'm taking specifically to you.

Vol 101

2011-01-05T14:25:00.003-05:00

So cool.
My printer can print in book format.
It prints in landscape format, two pages on each page.
It kind of confused me because it printed all the old numbers.
So pages 3 and 5 were on one page, 7 and 9 on the next.
It said to take the pages out, keep them in the order they're in and reinsert them back into the print tray.
Then it prints all the end pages.
In the end, you get double sided, booklet like prints.
Cool.
I stapled it together.
:P

Vol 100

2011-01-02T16:04:00.003-05:00

Me and the robot man in Uptown New York.

Anyway, I added a new wedget.
It's so I can TRY to keep a total of how much I spent on books already.
It's only day two of the new year and I've spent $41.
HA!

Vol 99

2011-01-01T00:02:00.000-05:00

Vol 98

2010-12-30T09:36:00.004-05:00

For the first time, when the east coast is struck with a blizzard, Baltimore is not effected.
Yet here I am in New York, surrounded by two plus feet of snow.
I should have stayed home, but no...I wanted to come hang with my okaasan, who I haven't saw in a year, in my otousan.
But okaasan's flight was cancelled, so no her.
Sucks.
Doesn't matter.
I'm leaving a day early anyway.
I would have left today, but I want to take the train home.
The five hour bus ride (it's never 5 hours long) was enough to deter me from taking it back.
You should have saw the traffic heading South bound from New York.
I tell no lies when I say that traffic was moving slowly between Baltimore and Delware, and was at a complete standstill from Newark NJ to Manhattan.
Complete standstill.

Anyway, one of the things we had planned was to see the newest Disney princess movie, Tangled a.k.a Rapunzel.
Chloe and I went to see it yesterday.
That movie was freaking awesome.
7 songs too many, but other than that, I've never laughed so hard at a Disney movie.
Seriously.
That movie was hilarious.
Had some very cheesy moments.
So cheesy I had to cringe.
But it was great.
The best characters were Max, the horse, and Pascal, the chameleon.
They were...*laughs*
Max was more dog than horse.
Pascal was more protective older brother/best friend than chameleon.
And Flynn and his smolder...PRICELESS.
I didn't think the Witch/Mom/Whoever was all that bad.
Yeah, she was wrong for kidnapping Rapunzel, but she treated her well.
Besides the no going outside part.
She could have just locked her away and tormented her, but she didn't.

Mah...anyway...
I need to go get ready soon.
Have a long day ahead of me.

Vol 97

2010-12-24T03:04:00.005-05:00

I'm too lazy to sit up, so I'm typing this from my phone.    
Right now, I'm reading Patricia Briggs' Masques.
This book is old. First came out when I was 5, back in '93, but has been reworked and released again.
 It won't match up to the Mercy Thompson series, more than likely, I can tell even if I'm only on chapter 3.
But it's going to capture me because of Wolf.
Wolf reminds me of Barrons from the Fever series.
So much power and skill, but a complete mystery.
Only Wolf is easier to figure out.
Again, I'm only on chapter three, but I've been all too sure that Wolf is really Cain, the Archmage's son, since the Archmage and Myr mentioned that he has/once had a son.
Aralon is starting to suspect that as well, but she's trying to reason it out. Yet the more she reason's the more i'm convinced.

Edit: Oh yeah, I'm positive I'm correct about Wolf.
No need to even doubt myself.

Vol 96

2010-12-21T18:15:00.005-05:00

Okay. First.
I finished school last week.
About time!
I was going crazy in that place.
I'm not sure what my grades are yet, whether I passed or not.
I don't really care either.
This semester started out promising but crashed about three weeks into.
Enough about school.

Christmas is coming up soon.
I've already completed my Christmas shopping.
I basically finished last month.
I am completely and totally broke.
Not like I'll be making any money at work.
My job is so slow in the winter that we only work once or twice a week.
So when people asked what I wanted for Christmas, my reply has been the same thing, "Don't buy me anything, because I'm not getting you anything."
And if that wasn't the reply, then this was, "Visa Gift Card."

I'm going to New York for 5 days in a week.
Whenever I go to New York, even if I try not to, money is always spent.
Lots of money.
So the Visa gift cards, and other cash cards, will be much needed.

I'm going to see a crap load of people I haven't saw in forever when I go up.
That right there is enough to tell you how much stuff I'll be dragged into doing.

On another note.
I'm late when it comes to a lot.
TV shows especially.
My attention span is too short.
It doesn't allow me to sit there and watch an hour long show.
I can barely do a 30 minute show.
So I was surprised when I managed to watch two episodes of the show Supernatural.
Tia, you talked about this show often.
My coworker also mentioned it, but I never saw it.
From the two episodes I watched, I could get into it.
I'm such a weirdo.
When it comes to things supernatural and mythology, you'd be surprised to learn how much I know.
I'm going to buy the first two episodes on Amazon, just to see if I like it.
If I do, one day I'll buy the DVD's.

I bought my parents a Blu-ray player for Christmas.
That might make a great show to watch in Blu-ray.

Finally, I've been involved in a hair battle for the last two days.
I wanted to dye it a bright fiery red.
So I did.
Only problem was, the roots were the correct color, everything else was rusty penny bronze.
Not the first time this has happened to me, but in dire need to be fixed.
So I put a temporary dye, a raspberry red, over it.
Once again, the roots came out correctly.
The rest did not.
I had a little black temporary dye left, but not enough to cover my entire head.
Therefore, I mixed it with the raspberry and tried once more.
Better.
Much better.
Not the bright red I wanted.
Not really red at all.
It looks black, but when you see me in the light, you can see the raspberry red color.

Today I tried to clip my end.
When my hand slipped in one spot, I had to take off about an inch all over.
My hair was already in a short bob cut.
Now it's an even shorter bob cut.
If it gets any shorter, I'll have to pull out the clippers.
I just can't win all the time.

Mah. That's all for now.

P.S: Tia, get your arse back here.

Vol 95

2010-12-01T02:24:00.005-05:00

This is for Trice!

And I quote:
Something Afternoon Tea (fiction I've been writing. XD) related.

End Quote:

That was your fourth wish, Trice, on your holiday wish-list-thing...yeah!
I said I would grant it.
And in a way I am.

Remember this:

She leisured around, paying attention to each detail marking the lobby of the Hilton, until her curiosity flared up due to a painting along the stairs...“Is there something wrong Miss Parker?”...Carter surveyed his para-legal from afar. He had labeled Emily as plain before, and noted that he had to revise this opinion. If the receptionist hadn’t told him that his companion was at the stairs, he wouldn’t have thought this woman was Parker.

If not, I'm sure you do now.
I always remembered that scene because...well...it was hella funny to me.
Plain on Em stepped out like BAM!
Penguin or Pooh didn't expect that.

Do you also remember my TBT picture post?
The one with the plush animals?
I'm sure you do.
My AT gift to you is this..........TADA!!!

Emily and Ian at the dinner party.
Do you like it?
I like it?
Let me convince you even more why you have to like and love it...

Every thing that Bear Emily, nickname Bemily, is wearing I made.
The hair?
I bought a hair piece, cut it, sewed it to the bear, and styled the bang.
I even made the head band and bow.

The dress?
I took an old shirt and skirt I never wear, cut them, and stitched them together.
Like the lace?
There's even a split in the lace.
Naughty Bemily.

Bear Ian, or Bian, was a lot easier to make.
I'm not finished with him just yet.
I want to give him a hat.
Maybe some nice pants, but pants are hard for me to make.
You have to consider that I'm cutting and stitching this all by hand.

But Bian is wearing the latest...or oldest, threads from my wardrobe.
He's sporting a nice white (not really collar) collar shirt and black vest.
Feeling a little frisky, he tossed the tie on the dance floor (I just didn't make the tie yet).

So...

Like your wish!
I like it?
I was going to mail it to you, but I'm not satisfied with the quality of it.
It's been a while since I've done something like this.
One of my many secret hobbies.
Anyway, WISH GRANTED!!!!!

BTW! WTH!
You've been updating AT and you haven't even told me.
I thought you were on hiatus?
What's that all about???
Last time I read it, Em and Ian were in the car eating chocolate, and Emily had a monthly visitor.
You're so petty.
I know I've been wrapped up with Nanowrimo, but I'm finished with that.
Next time let me know.

I'll read all those updates tomorrow.

Vol 94

2010-11-28T22:54:00.004-05:00

The lack of post this month will be blamed on November being Nanowrimo.
As mentioned in the previous post, the goal was to write a 50K word story in 30 days.

In the beginning, it started out fun.
It was pressure, but nice, easy, fun pressure to write daily.
I would come home from school, do homework, and at night start my chapter for the day.
I would stick with the plan without fail.
One chapter a day.

Around day 10, I became to busy with school work and wasn't able to type anything for two days.
That didn't bother me too much. because between days 12-15, I shot up 13K words.
That's a lot, right?
I was way over my total word count goal for those days.

But when day 16 came, I was so ready for this thing to be over.
It became annoying.
Tiring.
Frustrating.
I wanted to strangle my characters.
Those little gits have a will of their own and liked to change things on me.

I didn't write a single thing for four days.
I would come home, nap, do homework, and then prepare myself to write but never did.
I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
It wasn't so fun anymore.
I kept wishing it was over.
No more.
But I'm the kind of person who completes the goal I set for myself.
So, I drudged on.

Days 24 and 25, I was below the total number of words I should have had.
Sucked big time.
And by then I was really wishing it was over.
But I had 10K more words to type.
So between the 26th and 27th of November, I would stay up and write 5 thousand words a night.
I verified my word count last night and the "WINNER" badge flashed.
There.
My goal was complete.
I no longer have to type this damn, wretched story.
Or so I thought...

Yes, the 50K word goal was complete, submitting 51K words.
But that was only the first part of the novel.
I still have an entire second part to right to finish this book.
Then there's book 2.
I'm actually looking for to book 2.
I can't wait to write that one.
I was so excited, thinking I was finished with book 1.
Until I realized...this story isn't complete.
Too many unanswered questions.
Still stuff they have to do before I can even think about writing book 2.
Which I won't for some months.
Now that the goal is met, I'm putting this aside for a month.
I'll come back to it in January.
Hopefully by then, I won't ate it as much anymore.

Hopefully Naila won't hate it as much anymore either.
I bothered her with every single detail about this story for the entire month.
As I wrote, I was IM'ing her about what was going on.
She was a great person to talk to because she would ask questions and point out other things I missed.
That didn't mean she didn't hate hearing about it.
And it also annoyed me, how much I was talking about it.
Once upon a time, our conversations were dominated by ponies and rainbows.
Marshmallow clouds and sugar pops.
DBSK and BB.
Now it's also Nick and Aya.
Rosalind. Jase. Alexandra. Tafni. Davies. Finley. Devrin.
Zoe and Kat weren't so bad.
I liked those two.
Marlie as well.
But still...
So I decided to Acknowledge her in this novel in two ways.
One way is in the Acknowledgment section.
The other way is by naming a character after her...slightly.
Just the last name.
Tafni has her last night.

Mah! I'm going to wrap up this nanowrimo blog entry now.
I don't even want to see the word Nanowrimo for another year.

Vol 93

2010-11-09T00:33:00.003-05:00

Trice thinks I'm silly for wearing this hat.
Here's what I have to say to you Trice:
What's new pussy cat? Whooaaa whooaaaa!

Yeah, that made no sense at all.
But who cares.
I like that hat.

Anyway, it's day..., well because it's after midnight, it's day 9 of nanowrimo.
I'm about where I need be as far as word count goes, but not where I should be.
Nanowrimo's goal is only 50k words, while the story I'm writing will technically be twice as long.
But I'm on chapter 10.
I write a chapter a day.
I had some trouble with chapters 6 and 7, but 8 and 9 were simpler.
Now I'm coming to the tricky part.
The character has to convince another to tell the truth, and I have to introduce the bad guys.
Once this nanowrimo is over and my story is complete I have some majooooorrr editing to do.
There are times when only the dialogue comes to me, so I'll write that and skip all description and narration.

Oh yeah, when I went to New York last weekend, I went to karaoke.
I always go karaoke, but never singing for real.
I did last time, or was gonna, but the lyrics on the screen were wrong and it messed me all up.
So, not epik fail but still fail.
When I go back in December, I have to redeem myself.
And I finally choose the song.
Same artist, which means I have to do lots of practicing.

Vol 92

2010-11-04T10:45:00.002-04:00

It's November.
That means it's Nanowrimo time.
I didn't participate last year, but I am this year.
It's pressure.
Good pressure.
Fun pressure.
I have to rant to my friend about what I'm writing.
It helps me organize my thoughts, and she'll point out stuff that is unclear.

But anywoo....
I'm starving right now.
And late for class once again.
It's raining, and I left my umbrella in school a week ago.
Guess I need to get up and go by another one before I end up late for my other class.

Oh, an apparently I'm going out tomorrow.
That's news to me.
No one told me I had plans for tomorrow.
I planned to sleep in and eat all day.
Wash my hair and all that jazz.
Well I have news for them....
LOL

Bye Bye!

P.S: Like the picture? I acted as a model for my friend while in New York last week.
It was a random last minute thing.
I hate pictures, but she says I'm a good model.

Vol 91

2010-11-01T13:07:00.001-04:00

I've waited a very, very, very long time for this book.
It comes out today.
I finished it yesterday.
Oh, the wonders of preordering.

Now that I've read it, I can say with certainty that I think I am more Mercy than Indigo.
Which is strange in and of itself in a way, but that's what I truly think.

I would have liked more of a plot to this book, more psy-action, more of the war.
The Indigo/Drew action was wonderful.
He is such a sneaker charmer.
The Hawke coming to a realization....or more like Hawke knowing what he needs to do with a certain no-longer-redhead was GREAT.
Especially when she shut him down by saying she didn't come back for him.
-le sigh- Go Sienna.

But with the last scene, I have a feeling book 10 will have more psy-war-action.
I can't wait.
Especially since this is the book I've been waiting for since I first picked up the series.
Lucky for me I got into it very late.

Now I need to sleep because I need to wake up in 5 hours for class.

Vol 90

2010-10-31T18:04:00.002-04:00

Multimedia Message What do you know! It only took 10 minutes to get out of New York compared to the 40 it took to get in.   Current Location: Crossing over a bridge in New Jersey.

Vol 89

2010-10-31T15:49:00.002-04:00

So, i'll be boarding the bus that will take me back home from New York City in a little more than an hour.

Vol 87

2010-09-27T00:30:00.004-04:00

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
It's my twins birthday!
And it's Ms. Allisons birthday.

T__T. I'm 22 now. It just gets older doesn't it.
It doesn't get younger.
Sooner then later, the little things that I am still able to get away won't pass anymore.

You might not notice because this entry is titled "Vol 87," but this is all my 100th post.
YAY for two reasons.

Now I'll go crawl into bed.

Vol 86

2010-09-24T16:39:00.002-04:00

Okay, so I had a hairtastrophe last night.

Multimedia MessaI relaxed my hair and the dye stripped, leaving me with the image of an Oompa Loompa.
Basically, my hair turned green.
You should know that didn't fly well.
I had a hair appointment today anyway, so I didn't stress it too much.
But it was way to hot for that baseball cap I was forced to where.
The stylish did a wonderful job cutting my hair the way I wanted it, especially my bangs, as well as covering the green with a black color.
So yes, you can bet your money that I have been walking around swishing my short bob with the Yoochun Mirotic bangs all day.
I paid $125 for this style, $70 of that being just the color treatment.
They gave me some sample shampoo and conditioner to test, and if they work well on my hair, I'll buy them next time.

In other news, my birthday is Monday.
I had a meeting with my advisor at school today, and he's basically trying to convince me to switch my major once more, but this time to something I love.
The Arts.
Dance, Theater, Foreign Language, or English/Creative Writing.
This has been a confliction of mine for my entire college career.
It doesn't help matters.

Anway, what do you think of the hair?

Vol 85

2010-09-20T18:30:00.002-04:00

Wha-wha-wha-wha-WHAT DID YOU SAY?

Vol 84

2010-09-14T21:27:00.009-04:00

Previously, on TBT:

After weeks of reuniting, Hayden and Laney finally go on there first date to a cook class.
Hayden shower Laney will powdered sugar, which ultimately leads to a food fight and reprimanding from the instructor.

Afterward, we find our couple at the ESPNZone, where they compete against one another. Our couple also shares there first kiss. *Aw snap!*

Next time on TBT:

Hayden goes to his mother's house to pick up his son, Laney in toll.

Upon seeing Laney, Jaylen latches on her, as if it was his natural born right. Jade stares speechless.

How will Jade respond to this woman who has randomly entered her son and grandsons life?

Find out in the next episodes of The Boy's Toy.

(I think this is by far the greatest entry I've ever done.)

Vol 83

2010-09-13T21:36:00.003-04:00

Just got finished chatting with this darling lady and a few other authors.
Now I know there will one day, hopefully, be a book 3 for the Extraordinary Girl series.
Hopefully it won't take 4 years.

Going to do homework now.
I was sick all weekend, and besides going to work, the only thing I did was sleep.

Vol 82

2010-09-10T23:06:00.004-04:00

If you have not seen The Other Guys yet; go see it.
If you are not a fan of Will Ferrell; suck bricks.
That movie is freaking hilarious.
I haven't laughed that hard or long in a while.
There's no point of me telling anyone what the movie is about.
The fact that it stars Will Ferrell should be enough to tell you it's something silly.
Besides, there are a ton of trailer videos for you to find.
All I have to say is, Aim for the bushes and pimps don't cry.

Vol 81

2010-09-06T19:16:00.003-04:00

So Layden has reached the 100 page mark.
Awesome.
This is only the second to reach the 100 page mark.
And boy is it killing the Almighty One.
Tee-hee!
I'm such a bastard, prolonging all the good stuff.

Bah! I need to go finish my homework.
This weekend didn't allow me time to complete anything.

Vol 80

2010-09-05T10:05:00.004-04:00

During one of my random google searches, I stumbled across this button.
It made me laugh.
It's funny, but then I stopped to think, is there anything I feel guilty about?
Is there anything I should feel guilty about?
I couldn't really think of much, but I do have a bad habit of saying things that shouldn't be said in certain places.
I guess that's a guilt I feel.
Sometimes I should just...shhhh. Zip it.
I guess I'm just use to saying whatever I think where ever I am.
So, if I've said something that shouldn't have been said and someone was offended by it...Sorry.
But, this is who I am.

What about you?
Got Guilt?
roflmao

Vol 79

2010-09-05T00:11:00.001-04:00

Titanic just went off.
I always liked this movie...at least from the scene where the iceberg hits.
But as a girl I have to the right to say, "Oh Jack!"
But as me, I have the right to finish that sentence like, "You dumb ass!"

Every girl wants a Jack...when she's on a boat.
Just in case the ship sinks, you have some dingy love stricken fool who will do everything to make sure you survive.
I always said I would never go on a cruise unless there was a Jack.
My family is going on another cruise summer 2012.
I'm not sure if I'm going because I have other things I might be involved in at that time, but if I do ago, I need my own Jack.

Rosa was such a selfish prick.
She could have shared that wooden plank with him.
There was a way to get him on there.
But noooo, she let him stay in the cold ass Atlantic ocean water were he died from hypothermia.

Poor Jack, that idiot.

Vol 78

2010-09-04T20:52:00.002-04:00

So I went to my friends wedding today.
For those of you who no nothing of black people, if you only take one thing away from me, make it this: Black People Are Never On Time!

The wedding started a little late, because...well...black people are never on time.
LOL!

Anyway, while sitting there I came to the conclusion that when I get married I might actually turn into a bridezilla.
A real monster I shall become!
You have been warned.
But don't worry, it won't be that bad.
I'm not planning it.
My (fake) wife, Shama, wants to plan my wedding.
Now I can really see her turning into a raging ball of short Pakistani fire if something goes wrong.
Again, you have been warned.

People asked what I wore, that was it.
---The stance in the middle picture is awkward.

Vol 77

2010-08-31T19:37:00.003-04:00

School just started and this is already how I look.
I think I used up all my reading supply over the summer.
I don't want to read these textbooks.
None of them.
I don't want to read anything, not even the 2 books I just bought.
Bah!

Ha! My boring school tried to upgrade.
They implanted solar panels throughout various areas of its tiny campus.
Yay for going green!

I guess I should hurry up and read this chapter of this cognitive psychology book and my physics book.

Vol 76

2010-08-28T17:52:00.003-04:00

I'm going to a wedding next weekend.
Me being the very laid back person I am, I had nothing to wear
So I bought a nice top and some slack.
I don't really do dresses or skirts much.
Anyway, I've been searching for a shoe for weeks, but never found one.
Since the pants were white, it was hard to find a shoe that matched the entire outfit.
So, I had to buy different bottoms and in the end I bought this shoe.
A heel.
A fecking heel.
I don't wear heels.
And the bad thing is I paid $65 for that damn shoe.
Instead of leaving them in the box, after I paid for them I put them on and wore them all day yesterday.
And I will consistently wear them until I feel I've got $65 worth of wears out of them.

Vol 75

2010-08-28T17:42:00.003-04:00

There's a project I'm working on, a project that involves pictures, and I need to know the name of this dude.
Who the hell is this dude???
I've been searching for like...5 whole minutes and I can't find a name anywhere.
That's saying a lot.
I'm usually a mastermind when it comes to searching stuff.
I only need 3 minutes but this one is a tough cookie.

Vol 74

2010-08-26T22:31:00.003-04:00

This quote is a perfect opening for this post.

Oh Shrimp egg SU young.
Stop fecking texting me and just read the dag on book.
I should have never recommended the Fever series to her.
She's been texting me for the last hour asking questions, questions that could be answered if she just READS.
But it's all good.
That just means she likes the series, and I love when people like my recommendations.

So that covers good friends and good books.
The other topic is a sleepy conscious.

Recently I've been having the reoccurring ongoing dream.
Pleases me much.
I love when I have reoccurring ongoing dreams.
But this dream started out fun and entertaining.
Then, suddenly it was agony and depression.
Now, it's calm and mellow, which is great compared to the previous nights dream.
I wonder if it will continue when I sleep tonight, but it felt like it came to an end when Su texted me, waking me from my very late nap.

Oh, by the way...
もう一同大学校で日本語を勉強している。

Vol 73

2010-08-26T00:56:00.004-04:00

Guess who I'm going to see this fall?
KEVIN HART!
This guy is seriously funny.
One of the only comedians I truly find funny.
His style of comedy is similar to that of the legendary Bernie Mac.
He's a story teller.
He tells stories about his life, family, and friends, and it is just funny.
He's coming to Baltimore in October.
Can't wait!

Other news:
My birthday is coming up.
I'll be 22 at the end of next month.
I have no plans.
I never plan and celebrate for my birthday.
Is that terrible?
Anyway, the only thing I want this year is a car.
My attention span as always been to short to allow me to drive.
It still is, but I need one.

More other news:
School starts next week.
Woo hoo *sarcasm*
My classes are never how I hope they would be.
Is it too much to ask for for a little entertainment and candy during class?
Doesn't sound like to much.
It's the least the school can do after making me spend so fucking much for books and little gadgets that they change every semester, therefore I'm forced to by a new fucking clicker every semester for $40 and then pay another $15 to have the shit activated.
If you haven't realized yet, I'm pissed.
I get pissed just thinking about it.

Some more other news:
Oh my gawd.
Yay!
やった！うれしいよ！
Hawkeの本の名前はKiss of Snowです。
今年の一番ニューズ。

Other school bits:
School starts on Tuesday and I'm trying very hard to decide if I want to take Japanese again.
Yeah, I know. I said in an earlier entry that I was taking it, but after some schedule tweaking I dropped it.
But the problem is that I have a 5 hour gap between classes.
I could use that to study, but more than likely I won't.
Since I only have 14...or is it 15 credits?...I should take it.
That would give me 18.
But the problem is I have 4 hard ass classes already.
I don't want to overload myself.
I never study, so overloading myself on school work can be pretty damn easy for a procrastinator such as myself.
I should do it.
The other problem is that I should have received credit for these classes already, but they didn't accept them from when I studied abroad.
I could always try to test out of it, but my school doesn't have a basic Japanese test.
I would have to go to NYU just to take their standard Japanese grading test.
It's also been what?...almost 2 years since I've last studied Japanese.
I should retake it.
Bah!
I have a few more days to decide.
The one thing that consistently makes me drop the class is the textbook.
WORST TEXTBOOK IN THE WORLD.
No foreign language should be taught in romanization if it doesn't use roman letters.
Japanese uses Kana and Kanji. Not ABC's.
It's horrible.
A total way to kill any knowledge.

Some different stuff:
I'm a lazy bum.
Too many ideas.
Not enough energy and focus to actually get anything done.
You know the one time I can concentrate?
During class.
That's not the best time to be sidetracked.
Or right now for instance.
I should be sleep.
I have work to leave for work in less than 6 hours, yet I'm still up.

Last bit of book news for tonight:
So recently I've ventured into Young Adult novels.
Still the same genre: Fantasy.
Hey! I tried to branch out.
I truly did.
I got so damn bored with the other stories that I barely finished 4 pages.
But I'm reading for fun.
If it bores me, then too bad so sad.
Anyway, I've read Gena Showalter's Intertwined.
Yes, another Gena book. Shut. Up!
Those characters really are intertwined.
Stupid vampires are in it.
That was a sneak attack.
Werewolves too.
But I like Riley.
He can thanlkthe other wolf Riley from the Psy-Changeling series for that like.
It was passed on by name.
Book 2 comes out next Tuesday...although I think Barnes and Nobles website already released it.
Either way, I ordered my copy so I'll get it soon.

I've found another author I sorta kinda like. Maggie Stiefvater.
No clue in hell how to pronounce that name. *shrugs*
But her stories are very mellow while having action, conflict, and a balance of emotions at the same time.
That's good.
I've read her novel Shiver.
It's the first book of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series.
I've heard that was optioned and will now be a movie....*shrugs again*
I have the second book, but I haven't read it yet.
I got distracted by Gena.
Then I went out and bought Maggie's novel Lament.
It's a faerie series.
We all know how I love those Fae.
Just finished that tod...yesterday.
Ordered the second book as well.

Remember Wendy Raven McNair?
The author of that YA fantasy novel Awake?
Did I post about Awake?
Anyway, ordered her other novel Giant Slayers.
It's an adult novel.
Not fantasy.
See, I have been trying to step out my book.
It's about these three female friends and the woe's of their lives and all that other mess....
Not sure what to expect.
I read the first view pages on her website and it opened with a guy blowing his brains out......

Goodnight!

Vol 72

2010-08-15T17:03:00.002-04:00

Multimedia Message Holy kamehameha! I've been trying to clean my room for the pass week, key word is trying, when I stumbled across some carvings I'd done back in 9th grade.  It's Dragonball Z.  I was crazy about that show when I was younger. CRAZY.  I think i'm going to color this in.

Vol 71

2010-08-12T12:43:00.001-04:00

Multimedia Message Noodles and Company. I love this place.  Last week was my first time trying it and man oh man did I love it. It's not the best place in the world but the feta cheese made my Pasta Fresca tase ohsogood.  And the chicken noodle soup is delicious.

Vol 70

2010-07-25T21:38:00.005-04:00

I think I've turned into a book fanatic.
It's not so bad, but my genre of interest is limited.
I'm a paranormal, sci-fi, fantasy kind of girl.
While the majority of the fans in this genre are Vampire crazy, I am not.
No Twilight for me.
EVER.

My interest has always been that of psychic abilities, which is why I love the Psy-Changeling series so much.
But more so than that, Mythology is just plain, completely, mind buggingly interesting.
I love it.
Always have.
Always will.

I love reading fiction stories with Greek and Roman gods.
While the gods don't play THAT much of a role in Gena Showalters Lords of the Underworld series, ol' Cronus is in it enough to keep me entertained.
But even more than that, I think the Fae are my all time favorite myth.
If you don't know who the Fae are, they are the Irish myth.
You may know them as the Fairy.
The fae are just fan.fucking.tastic.
And not all of them are tiny, glittery, and fly.
Ohhh no.
There are tons of different fae.
The worst being the Unseelie.
The Unseelie is a court, place of residence, the Dark, the ugly, the dangerous.
There is a Seelie court, the Light, the pretty, the fairer of the two, but that makes them no less dangerous.
The Unseelie are my favorite.
No matter what story I read, how badly they are portrayed, they rock.

I'm reading Karen Marie Moning's DarkFever series right now.
I'm surprised that I'm even reading this.
I found her Highlander series completely insane.
Those stupid females.

The Unseelie in this story are not so likable.
They are truly crude, hideous, despicable, and monstrous.
But the funny part is, the worst character, the ulitimate bad guy is Human.
It's always the Human.
Just goes to show who the real monsters are.

The picture is one of a Fae.
She looks like a fairy, although this picture shows up if you image search for a "sidhe".

Edit::

BARRON!!! He's just so damn mysterious. It's been two books now and I still only know NOTHING about him. What kind of hero is he really? If he's really even a hero. He's so infuriatingly complicated, evasive, cold, mean, but all the while he can be so cool. Bastard that he is. It turns out that I'm reading this series for him. Frog MacKayla. Feck V'Lane. I don't even know how you say that name...V'Lane. And if I was MacKayla I wouldn't trust anyone. Which she doesn't. Smart girl, and that's saying something since I found all the other female leads Moning wrote in her Highlander book to be completely hopeless.

I want to be team Barron, but I can't be team Barron when I know absolutely nothing about him. I can't be team V'Lane. One thing I learned from Merry, Meghan, and Mercy, never trust a Fae. V'Lane has unexplained loyalties and feelings for Mac. That is just untrustworthy. That wouldbe rapist.

I think I got that off my chest.

Vol 69

2010-07-23T17:06:00.005-04:00

金曜日です～～～！！
本当に嬉い。
今日働きません。

私の日本語は本当に下手になりましたねぇ。
今年の秋大学でもう一度日本語を勉強します。
漢字全部忘れました。

I'm off work today. YAY!
I went to the track this morning with my friend.
Dear god, I was just hot looking at her run around in 80 something degree weather at 8am with a sweat jacket on.
I wanted to pass out for her.
She rode a bike to the track, but I rode the bike around the track while she jogged. Then I did a few sprints, which I haven't done in a year.
Wanted. to. drop. dead. immediately.
But I didn't not to do that since I already pre-ordered three books and would love to be around to read them.

I think I'll go work on Noor now.
I'm having the most difficult time starting that.
But Laney is moving along once again.

Oh yeah, I made shrimp pasta with marinara today.
From scratch.
とてもおいしい。
I am the best.

Edit:
Changed the picture.
The first one was kinda scary. LOL

I always wanted to take one of those stupid pictures people take in the mirror, but the flash is on, so you can't really see anything.
Talk about bad photography.
So...me being the silly person that I am, I took one at school one day over the summer, and there it is.
Isn't it purdy?
(No, not really since you can't see anything)...
Why do people like taking these.
LMAO

Vol 68

2010-07-20T20:02:00.007-04:00

Who cares about a Team Jacob or Team Edward, when you can be Team Puck or Team Ash!
I am so on Team Ash!
Sorry Puck.
You're hilarious and adorable, but the cold (literally) Prince is who I side with.

I started two young adult Trilogy's recently.
Neither are completed, and the waits are insane.

The first one I started was Asleep by Wendy Raven McNair.
Adisa is a 16 year old, who gets a emotionless boyfriend, Micah, who just so happens to be a super. He can fly.
Adisa is obsessed with the whole super hero thing to the point that her twin sisters pick on her about it.
When she first meets Micah, in class on the first day of school, he doesn't reply to her greeting, and she had no idea he was her new neighbor.
So when he and his family shows up at her house for dinner that night, she was shocked speechless, and completely embarrassed as her sister made fun of her super hero fascination.

But you later learn that Micah will die soon, and that the only way to save him is for the healer, a girl, that he falls in love with to forgive his Sp. Twin.
Good thing is Adisa is the healer. She developed her powers later in the story.
The bad thing is, Micah's Sp. Twin, Vincent, kidnapped Adisa.
There is no way she wants to forgive him.
But nonetheless, she and Micah are determined to find a way to save him, while the go against those who oppose them, Micah's dad.

The other trilogy is the Iron Fey trilogy.
I'm not going to explain what a fae is.
I think I've done that one before when I read the Merry Gentry series, or maybe the Mercy Thompson series.

Meghan is another 16 year old girl, what's with the 16?, who is an outcast in school. She has one friend, Robbie, and no one can remember Robbie once he is gone. Strange.
One day Meghan's little brother is kidnapped and a strange person/thing impersonating her brother is in her house.
The imposter is attacking her when Robbie comes to her rescue.
Robbie then goes on the explain what the imposter is, and who is probably responsible for kidnapping her brother.
He also reveals that his name is not really Robbie Goodfell, but Robin Goodfellow, or just Puck.
If you're familiar with A Midsummer's Night Dream, or anything about old mythology and such, you'll recognize of few of the characters and creatures.

Meghan accompanies Puck into the Nevernever (Faeryland) to rescue her brother, where they are chased by this guy with black hair and pale skin, who has a bunch of warrior guys with him.
Puck hides Meghan by tossing her into a tree, where she lands and scares away the bird that Grimalkin the cat was about the eat.

These four are pretty much the main characters on the adventure.
Meghan finds out she's a fae princess to the Seelie court (summer). Her dad is King Oberon, and her stepmother threatened to kill her.
She meets Mab, the queen of the Unseelie court (winter), who wants to capture her, and Mab's three sons.
The pale dude with black hair is one of Mab's sons, Prince Ash!

Meghan gets Puck and Ash to stop fighting long enough for the two of them to work together to rescue her brother, but everything has a cost.
Grimalkin is there mainly because he finds Meghan entertaining.

The travel in and out of Faeryland to the real world a few times. Fought some humans, Trolls, grimlins, and other mystical creatures.

The main antagonist in this series are the Iron Fey, who are a major threat to the Fae. The Fae and Iron just can't mix. Iron can kill even the strongest of fae, which you'll see in this story. But with the birth of these Iron fae, thanks to us humans who love our technology, the rest of Faeryland will eventually become extinct. The only ones to know about the Iron Fae are Meghan, Ash, Puck, and Grim.
But with Puck currently out of the picture, Grim gone, Ash gone, and Meghan being held captive by Mab, no one can inform the rest of the land and warn them.

Book 2 comes out next week on the Kindle.
I already pre-ordered it.
I pre-ordered Burning Up as well. Nalini Singh's newest novella is in that book.

I can't remember half the books I read recently so I won't even try to list them all. I won't even try to list them because some of the books I loaned to friends, or borrowed from friends and no longer possess. Just know that I've probably completed my resolution twice over.

I'm reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief right now.

Go Team Ash!
Wake up Puck!
Come back Grim!
Man up Meg!

Vol 67

2010-07-20T19:41:00.004-04:00

It's been a while since I updated!

Last weekend I went to The Great Wolf in Williamsburg, Virginia with my aunt Beverly and two little cousins.
The Great Wolf is a water park resort, and with two little ones, 4 and 8, my aunt needed someone to help her watch the children.
Thus, I stepped in.
I've never been there, and frankly, I don't do much traveling because I get sick when I travel.
So, first good news is that I didn't get sick the entire trip.
That's a very great thing.
Second good news, that place was awesome.
The design in pretty, the decorating with wolves and other natural looking things made it very relaxed.
You feel like you're in the middle of the woods, but since Wal-Mart is 2 minutes away, if that long, you know you're not stuck somewhere.
But I couldn't get cell phone service unless I was hotness, and it was way too hot to be outside.

Anyway, The Great Wolf is an indoor water park.
There are 6 slides, two hot tubes, a wave pool, a lazy river pool, a surf thing, a children's pool, an outside pool, and another pool.
In the middle is the big three story figure you climb to get to two of the slides. It reminds me of Port Discovery.
The resort also has a spa, children's spa, pizza hut, arcade, computer room, workout room, and some other places.
The room we stayed in, The Wolf Den, had a queen size bed, a sofa bed the same size, and a mini room that consists of bunk beds. There was a bathroom, microwave, refridgerator, table, dresser, and two tv's. It was a pretty decent size room.

The children wanted to stay in the pool the entire three days we were there, but no way in hell we were letting that happen.
By midday the second day, my aunt and I were completed wiped out of water fun.
I just wanted to get as far away as possible, and did not look forward to the last day of splishing and splashing and wet hair. But of course, we went again.
It wasn't bad. We let the children pretty much do whatever they wanted and would only sit there, unless they were in deep water.

It was a fun place. I'll probably take a trip there next summer, but only for 1 day.
Maybe go on a Friday, leave on Saturday, then hit Kings Dominion on the way home, or maybe even Six Flags once I get back in Maryland.

Other news:
I went to a family cookout two weekends ago.
I don't really know those people.
I may have met them twice in my life.
If more than that, I don't remember.

My mother, sister, god-sister, and I went to see the movie Grown Ups, before we went to the cookout.
The movie was hilarious.
I laughed really hard.
Aaaa, good times.

(Me, Aunt Beverly, Little cousin Jayonna)

I'm suppose to go out tomorrow with some childhood friends, but if they do not text me in the next 30 minutes to tell me where we are going and what time we are meeting, I won't go.
It's too hot to come home from work, just to go back out.
Once you get me in the house, I'm in there for good.

Vol 66

2010-06-29T15:20:00.002-04:00

Lookie lookie what I got. Talk about being ultra excited. Too bad i'm too damn tired and almost up to my neck in school work to read them.

Vol 65

2010-06-26T16:29:00.002-04:00

And the answer to the question at the end is a resounding, NO. I did not think I would ever read this at a burger joint in the Inner Harbor. The back says "the bacon cheese dogs are awesome." this is at Five Guys.

Vol 64

2010-06-23T10:45:00.002-04:00

Oh, the joys of summer. It's too damn hot...

Vol 63

2010-06-21T07:47:00.002-04:00

Multimedia Message Ahoy! This picture is a of of the Maryland Science Center from my job. It's so close, but because of the harbor you have to take this ten minute walk all the way around the harbor to get to it.  I haven't been there sin....no wait, I went once back in 2008 to see the body exhibit. Before that, I haven't been since elementary school. They've done a lot of changed with the place, added a new building, changed some exhibits.   My job does the same thing.  A whale fossil that hangs of the stingray tank. Never actually knew what that fossil was, nor did i care. Just found out yesterday

Vol 62

2010-06-19T01:24:00.004-04:00

I saw both of these movies today.
I saw Get Him to the Greek first.
I was skeptical about it since I'm not a fan of rapper/singer turned actor.
I wondered how Diddy would do.
He did okay.
Said the word "fuck" entirely too much.
He really overused that word.
He made Bernie Mac look like a saint.
A non-cussing saint.

I'm not a movie critic, nor do I want to be, so no critque of this movie besides saying that it was....hilarious. I think my favorite scene was the club in Vegas with the Jeffery. And I loved when Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) showed up at the club in London.
It was a good movie.
There was this old couple in front of me and even they enjoyed it.

Right after that movie ended I saw the remake of the Karate Kid with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. Originally I said I didn't want to see this. I was never a fan of the Karate Kid. Hated watching those movies, but somehow I ended up watching this.
We all know that Jackie Chan can kick major patootie, but Jaden is f*****g AWESOME.
Not just Jaden, but all of those children are.
The reason Jaden stands out the most, not just because he was the only black child in the tournament, but also because I can bet that those other children actually learned martial arts for years and not just two months. The kid is a beast. All of them were. Screw the rest of the story, just watch all the fight and training scenes.

This picture is what made me want to watch it.

Vol 61

2010-06-18T16:10:00.001-04:00

Even my city can have some nice areas. Wow! I never knew.

Vol 60

2010-06-18T09:54:00.002-04:00

What kind of society do we live in where we step outside to find strange wannabe-thugs sleeping on our front porch? I don't know, but that better not happen again. Stupid bastard, because I stood there to make sure he got off my property, I missed my bus. Now i'm late for class.

Vol 59

2010-06-17T17:18:00.002-04:00

Multimedia Message The rents and the imoto are on a cruise. I have the place to myself. They've been gone for a few days now and will be back at the end of week.   Nice picture of the boat, right? I was suppose to go with them, but then i changed my mind and decided to go to Japan. Now, i've decided to do absolutely nothing. I'm taking summer classes. They end in three weeks.   Okay, back to the fitness center we go.

Vol 58

2010-06-17T17:04:00.002-04:00

Multimedia Message Just checked out the new fitness center in Baltimore County. You can say it's still the city since we just crossed the city/county line like 100 feet ago.   This place would be better if it had a pool.

Vol 57

2010-06-08T09:23:00.002-04:00

I'm taking two summer classes.
General Chemistry and Biology Lab.
In both classes, we have a quiz daily.
I just took my first Gen Chem quiz. It was fairly easy, or so I think. Lets see how I scored.

When I get home today, I know I should finish my lab report for last weeks Bio Lab. Lets see if I actually do it.

It feels nice outside, but I have a cold. Summer colds are not fun. Not fun at all.

Vol 56

2010-06-07T07:48:00.002-04:00

Nice view. Horrible smell.
I'm working at the warehouse today. I love the warehouse. Just me and one other person. No children. No animals. No gift shop. And tons of places to eat.

Vol 55

2010-05-19T01:43:00.005-04:00

I have a Biology final in less than 11 hours, and I don't think it'll surprise anyone that I haven't studied.
Also, I have a Linguistic final paper due at the same time, and I've only wrote 2 out of 10 pages so far.
I'm so confused. (Not by the paper)
Yesterday around this time I was completely energized and zipping around with loads of unwanted energy. It was four AM and I was still wide awake, but today I've been a tired as a dead mouse since ten PM.
BAH!

I'm going to bed now, and I'll wake up at seven AM to finish my paper. I have the outline and powerpoint so it shouldn't take more than an hour and an half to review all my sources and case-studies, and finish the paper. I don't have to leave until 11:30 am, so that gives me 4 1/2 hours. Then I'll get to school, submit my paper, take my Bio final, and come home where I need to write a 15 page paper that's due by midnight. FUNNNNN! Not!

But today I gave myself a new goal. It's a short term goal.
Not really a career choice, but something I want to try.
I think I mentioned it before, but now I'm aiming with a little more resolution.

Oh yeah, there was this paper I submitted for my Interdisciplinary class a few weeks back, a personal essay about my talents and hobbies.
My talents and hobbies all lie in the arts: Dance, Drama, Photography and Film, Creative Writing, Foreign language, etc...
But my career goal is to become a Neurosurgeon.
Kind of not in the same fields at all.
So my Professor made a comment that I should check out UNESCO, which is a branch in the United Nations that deals with education, science, and culture worldwide.
My advisor laughed at this because when we were trying to create my major a few months ago we came up with something like that: International and Cultural Health....or something along that line.

Vol 54

2010-05-18T02:37:00.003-04:00

Just knowing that the ever-so-mean author who I adore, Nalini Singh, is starting on the tenth book of her Psy-Changeling series, Hawke's book, is enough to elicit a howl of my own to the moon.