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I've been spending a lot of time reading articles on the English language lately.  This one is particularly interesting:

http://www.good.is/post/mark-peters-on-eggcorns/

It calls for people to not be too harsh on people that drop eggcorns.  Personally, I'm going to continue calling people out on them. :P

Saw Ponyo.  It is amazing, of course.

Came home, made avatars.

Now I sleep.

I found another gray hair today.  I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't wiry and far more wavy than the rest of my hair.  So much for semi-straight, when I finally go entirely gray I'll have the sort of hair that flappers used to crimp for. 

I outlasted my parents, though, so I suppose that's something.  They both started finding white hairs in high school.  I made it to my twenties.  Dad's still all salt-and-pepper, but my hair isn't as dark as his, so I'll probably wind up with the same mottled color as my mom.

... dying may be an option, if I ever decide I'm that vain.

In other, better news... I was not the only person in class that didn't have all four outlines finished, and I ended up with the ONE truly scientific question out of the lot.  I feel like I can actually build a decent paper off of this one.

Some day I will actually use this journal for the purpose it was created for.

Dear Irrational Self:

y so srs?

Knock it off.

Love,
The Rational Self

The fact that I woke up this morning to a new MIKA album makes me ridiculously happy.  As does the fact that, according to the patch notes on MMO champions, Blizz has failed to nerf priests this patch.  Shadow appears to have gotten a couple of small buffs, in fact.  Unstoppable killing machines?  Why yes.

As I expected, my creativity has started flowing again now that school is back in.  This always happens, and unfortunately I haven't yet discovered how to channel all that energy into essays.  If anyone knows the secret to how this is done, please tell me.

Triplets of Belleville.  Absolutely one of the best pieces of animation I've seen.  Beautiful, unique, and funny.

Here's a video of one of the songs featured in it, performed by M (in English, I actually prefer the French):

I wasn't about to get into the discussion on discipline priests here: http://community.livejournal.com/wow_ladies/11016539.html because, let's face it, I'm terrible at the numbers and theorycrafting in general.

The commenter going on about Disc stat priorities made me pull a "O_o;", however, as all of the literature I've read on the subject (admittedly prior to the patch that made spirit a less-than-epic stat) advocates piling on spirit and mp5 for the sake of not running out of mana in the middle of a raid.  Everything I've learned about healing as a Disc priest states that, while crit is important, it should take a backseat to getting the desired amount of mana regenerated per second.

Sounds like it may be time for me to do some more research. =/

Or respec Holy, but guuuuuuuuh.  I completely fail at learning new spell rotations, and the last time I was Holy was for one Kara raid back in BC.  I remember boggling at my buttons and being generally useless.

www.good.is/community/MarkPeters Great blog for English language enthusiasts.  I'm starting to learn that I am one, even with my frequent misspellings and incorrect usages. Words are important, damnit.

On that note, when I finally get to transfer to my CSU of choice, I'm going to be majoring in art (emphasis in animation) and minoring in English, despite the fact that essays are the bane of my existence.

I say "finally" because my JC is experiencing budgeting issues that have caused several courses to be slashed from the curriculum this semester. This includes Spanish 1A--which, technically, I took in high school. Unfortunately, it appears that I may not be able to graduate for yet another semester, as I need a foreign language class for both my AA and to transfer.

Woo.

On the plus side, my drawing style has shifted yet again, which may prompt me into drawing more.  It's a bit more realistic than it was, and I think I like the way it may be heading.  There are a few reference books I'd like to purchase off of Amazon, but that will have to wait until after I've paid off the new notebook PC.  Clutch PC?  Netbook?  I have no idea what to call the thing, aside from Hal.  (Yes, I do have a bad habit of naming my computers and referring to them as "he", shut up.  At least the one downstairs is Cerebro, it's an it.)

I have two writers' companion books that I bought a few semesters ago that I still haven't read.  I should do that before the semester starts, they might help to kick my muse into gear.  I really want to start scripting for a short webcomic idea that's kicking around my head.  I don't have the foggiest notion how to script a comic, though.  Like a movie, I suppose, but that doesn't help as I don't know how to write that sort of script, either.

I just want to get all of this pent up silliness from the theatre out of my head.

Absolutely terrified of my speech class.  Again.  Signed up for one that teaches about non-verbal communication and other forms of communication besides public speaking, it might be slightly less stress-inducing than the one I dropped last semester.  Slightly.  It is with a professor that's known on campus for being tough and a bit of a jackass, but I tend to withhold my judgment until I've actually met a person.  After all, everyone said that Leidlich was a terrible old bitch of a man and I adored him, in a "haha you're a sarcastic old jerk and I like that" sort of a way.

LJ just threw up an add for Nyhm's Warcraft guides on my friends page.

For some reason, this is incredibly entertaining.

So instead of working on backstories/writing assignments from two semesters ago/finding my muse so that I can draw well again...

... I'm sitting here, having pangs of nostalgia for a TFs RP I pretty much abandoned without a word.  I'm wondering if I can find another.  I'm wondering if, if I did, I would actually be able to stick to it for more than a week without losing interest.  I'm trying to remember what the fuck an astro-tick translates to in real-world time.

I think I'm going to watch NCIS and wonder if there's an RP that has Gibbs or Ducky free, instead.

Not the kind that, according to popular belief, inhabit San Fransisco.

Every legend about the Fair Folk, fairies, sidhe, or whatever one chooses to call them, has this in common:

Fairies don't like iron.  It hurts them, blinds them, repels them, right?

So riddle me this:

Why do fairies have an obsession with stealing humans?  Our blood is iron.  Admittedly, not a whole hell of a lot of it, but enough to make it smell and taste metallic.  Why wouldn't proximity to human beings at least make them uncomfortable?

I'm  considering investing in a respec.  I think Tee's gear is good enough and his non-disc mana regen will be high enough that Holy won't make me snarl.

Much.

Okay, it probably will and I'll be switching back to discipline within an hour, but hey.  I haven't played a Holy priest since the few runs of uber-nerfed Kara last fall.  Summer?  Whatever.  I'm kind of tired of having to tell people "no, sorry, I'm disc, I suck at raid heals, please put me on the MT, OT, or essential DPS of your choice.  I'll pop a PoM and a PoH when I can, but no promises, if you die you die sooooo sorry."

I dunno.

... Why am I thinking about WoW instead of just playing it?

A couple of amusing links (I especially like the one with the science badges) and a mini self-rant.

First, the fun part!

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

http://www.scq.ubc.ca/sciencescouts/

Writewritewritewritewrite you stupid fool, WRITE.  It's not hard.  It's one letter in front of another to make words that make sentences that hopefully aren't run-ons like this one.  Sentences that tell a story.  Or possibly just how not to fall down the stairs in the dark.  (Protip: use a flashlight.)  Draw more, too.

Write more.

Draw more.

Play more.

There's only another month or so of summer vacation left.  Don't waste it.

Damnit, courts, legislators, and marriage purists, you're making me look bad.  Well.  Truth be told you're making yourselves and your state look bad, but since I live here and folk tend to generalize...

Yeah.  You're making me look bad.  Knock it off.

www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27marriage.html

There is no point to this.

So while waiting for info on what it might take to get my PC running again, I caved and got a Twitter account.

I probably won't ever update it and it will most likely be deleted due to inactivity, but hey. I can stalk Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman through it, so. 

Uh.  http://www.twitter.com/terribletrivium

Woo.

So I'm writing this from my parents' computer. This is because my new system... won't boot up. It was fine yesterday and now it won't move past the big green ASUS Motherboard setup screen. Keyboard freezes up.

Despite this, I kind of like Vista. There's a neat WoW Gadget for it that keeps track of realm status and such. It's swell.