Apocalypse, the Sequel

I had a great birthday. It was very very busy, for one. Usually when I wake up, I like to putter around on the internet for a bit to help me wake up, yesterday I immediately felt the need to shower, which turned out to be a good thing because my father called. His birthday gift to me was a new mattress set, cuz the one i had was killing my back, so he wanted to take me out shopping for it. While I was getting ready, the guy from Home Depot FINALLY came and installed our new doors, they're so pretty~.

I got an awesome bed, its so comfortable. No headboard or anything but that's okay. I needed me a mattress and today I didn't want to get up cuz I was so comfy. XD. When I got home, there was about a thirty minute window that I wasn't allowed out of my room while my roommate finished decorating my cake. Turns out she made a TARDIS cake!! It was so cool~. And delicious too. Some advice to the chocolate lovers out there... Adding chocolate chips to the batter? Great idea.

My brother and my roommates took me out to dinner, after which we ate cake, and then went Swing Dancing. I didn't get back until about 1:30 and I still had 800 words to write!! Managed to finish that, but all in all, I call my birthday an all-around success, and it was all because of my friends and family. Thank you all~.

an hour into my birthday and its already good. My brother and his girlfriend came running out with noisemakers and a big foam finger and yelled birthday congrats to me, then my brother gives me a lovely illustrated copy of The Hobbit. My other roommate was hinting about a really awesome cake she's going to bake for me. Apparently I'm not allowed out of my room while she's doing it. I'm sooo curious.

Well, Happy birthday me~ Lets hope the rest of the day goes well too!

If you haven't heard, about two weeks ago about 1000 emails and 3000 documents were hacked and/or stolen from a prominent climate-change research center in the UK and put up on the internet. This new information has yet to be confirmed as fabricated, in fact, they appear to be dangerously genuine, and has the internet abuzz. Why is this so? Because in these emails and documents it shows how prominent scientists and politicians in this research center have been skewing the charts and data to show warming that isn't actually there. Not only that, but they also talk about redefining the definition of 'peer-reviewed magazine' when a science magazine is printing articles contrary to the 'established' data.

One of the biggest scandals in history and the main news organizations are barely touching it. Download and read these papers yourself here

Now through Christmas I'm having a sale on all commissions!

I will draw anything you want (scary thought). Here is the price ranges

Sketch- $10 $5
Inked- $15 $7
Color- $20 $10
Environments- upon discussion

There is the option of a physical copy and a CG copy, if you want the same image both in CG and physical copy there may be some problems with quality, as I've no scanner and the printer is only so-so. Anything else will have to be discussed privately.

I will require payment before receipt of image, however, I won't ask for payment until after the image is completed and it will be an immediate exchange. Payment can be made through paypal, preferred, check or cash. I will also be providing a signed contract simply saying that you agree to pay 'this much money' for 'this image' in simple language, guaranteeing the product upon payment.

Please send your commission request to my email address stalkerofdoom@yahoo.com or send me a private im. If you have any questions, go ahead and comment here!

Please support me as I wait for my first paycheck which won't arrive till Christmas. I needs the money for rent and food, so some prices may be negotiable.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE

That is all.

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President Obama created a new presidential precedent when he bowed to the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko Saturday.

No president of the United States in the more than 230 years since the country was founded in 1776 had ever bowed to a member of royalty. That was until Barack Obama’s presidency.

In April, President Obama bowed to the Saudi king during the G-20 meeting. At the time, Obama’s deferential bow was somewhat obscured, and the White House insisted that the president simply had leaned forward to shake the king’s hand.

But the president's recent demonstration of royal deference to the Japanese emperor and empress suggests his earlier action was no aberration.

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If I do a TMNT based Halloween fic, what would you like to see in it?  I want to do a sorta creepy fic and am open to ideas!

I had an idea to make a site for Fanfiction for Beginners.   Basically a site that would give advice how writing, how to start, some rules and general information about fanfiction.  Now there are a ton of websites like that out there, but I thought it might be fun to do it anyway because the idea I had was to interview fanfiction's divas or really good writers about their writing process and experience in fandom.

I already have a couple of articles from back in '06, but I'm opening it up if anyone has anything they would like to contribute or suggest.  The list below is some suggestions of topics that would be good to see.

Maintaining Charactization
Creating a Voice
Grammar
Het vrs Slash
Writing Smut
Basic Needs to know (like summeries and chapter lengths, and a/n)
Fandom Etiquette


The website isn't so much a website as a blog, because I don't have the money or the skills to maintain a website and my brother, who does, is too busy.  Here's a link to it.

http://howtowritrefanfiction.blogspot.com/

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"Safe Schools" Czar Jennings Should be Expelled

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Written by William F. Jasper

Friday, 11 September 2009 16:15

Once people start finding out about Kevin Jennings, President Obama's "Safe Schools" czar, he may end up going the way of Van Jones. Jones, the president's "Green Jobs" czar, resigned September 6 amidst much rejoicing on the right. Predictably, Jones and his defenders blamed his demise on "a vicious smear campaign" by racist opponents "using lies and distortions." However, it was Jones' radical record (he is a self-described communist) and his foul language and intemperate demeanor — not any smear by opponents — that did him in. The White House admitted as much, acknowledging that Jones had not been adequately vetted. What kind of "vetting" excuse can Team Obama offer for Jennings, who is, arguably, far more radical than Jones and boasts a much more extensive public record? Like Jones, Jennings is given to spouting foul language when speechifying about the opposition. He also admits to using deception when pushing a subversive agenda that would be rigorously opposed by the vast majority of Americans if honestly promoted under its true colors. Read more

I just wanna stop there and say... Why do we need a Safe Schools Czar?!  The answer is, we don't!  That is the job of the schools, the local communities to handle, NOT the job of the national government!

I do believe the government has entirely too much power and the fact that THIS kind of non-vetted or elected position is being created is completely the opposite of the Constitution.

(I also want to point out to those ppl on my flist that will just point to Bush as the creator of all evil, shut it.  It started way before Bush and while he DID increase the amount of power the government had by a lot, Obama is going at it leaps and bounds more than he ever did and simply repeating the same old lines about the past isn't constructive to the current situation.)

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My 2nd monday playing with clay with my brother's girlfriend. We're making it a weekly thing to get to know each other better and because its just so gosh-darned fun! I did a Leo bust~

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As you know, I lost my job yesterday. So, I suddenly have a lot more free time!  So, in that time, I'm opening the floor for drawing commissions!

I will draw anything you want (scary thought). Here is the price ranges

Sketch- $10
Inked- $15
Color-  $20
Enviromental- upon discussion

There is the option of a physical copy and a CG copy.  Anything else will have to be discussed privately. 

I will require payment before receipt of image, however, I won't ask for payment until after the  image is completed and it will be an immediate exchange.   Payment can be made through paypal, preferred, check or cash. I will also be providing a signed contract simply saying that you agree to pay 'this much money' for 'this image' in simple language, guaranteeing the product upon payment.

Please send your commission request to my email address stalkerofdoom@yahoo.com or send me a private im.  If you have any questions, go ahead and comment here!

So... yeah.

Lets see. I did get a verbal warning about missing so much work.  And then we ran out of work, since its a temp job, and i got laid off just now.

fun stuff

Is kinda made of awesome

I was just sitting down to write all smug and pleased that I would begin so early in the day, as I tend to put it off with little excuses like 'I'll just check my email first, oh what a interesting link, I should check out those books...' and I find myself listening to a sample of Leonard Nimoy's I Am Spock with no intent on buying, just enjoying the sound of my first TV crush's voice, when movement caught the corner of my eye.  Always ready to find spiders and always hoping not, my eyes shot around to fix on the motion.  You can enjoy my mind process below...

What the hell is that?  Its huge!!  Is that... is that a wasp?  It's crawling, is it injured? Oh please be injured.  Oh crap. I can't deal with spiders in my room let alone wasps!  Should I knock on the wall and wake my brother?  *hand drifts to wall, eyes not moving from the creature*  Oh, there's Sugar! She only eats moths though, and that one ladybug that she spat out later...  But she's never seen a wasp! God, its huge.  Oh good, Sugar noticed it.  Eat it, eat it. Kill it, kill it.  Ahh crap, she's just watching.  Maaaaaannn. *grabs spiral notebook*  If I drop this on it, will it kill it?  Not while its on cloth, wait till its on the floorboards.  Ready? Three, Two... OH SHIT IT FLEW! *jumps back while the cat jumps forward, only to settle back down as the wasp lands again*  Crap crap crap, now what?  It's crawled underneath the boxes, I can't see it.  Ahh. shit.  Okay, out bed *edges around the far side of the bed.*  Don't want to start with the objects directly above it... It might fly out at me and I know I'll run screaming...  Okay, move this stuff over here first, work your way towards it.  Keep an eye on it sugar.  Yes, it dissapeared and NOW you want to play with it. 

Okay, pillows gone, now a box, ah. There it is. Beneath the second box.  okay, looks settled.  I need a bigger book.  Biig book.  Um. But not one of my nice books.  Dictionary? Sounds good.  Okay, hefty, will smash.  OH SHIT ITS FLYING AGAIN.  Ohh and Sugar is trying to bat it out of the air.  Noo, not BEHIND the computer~!   Ah! Landed on the window sill! Okay.  I can do this I can do this I can do this.  *grips dictionary and lifts it over head.  With a mighty WHACK, smashes the wasp head on!*  I got it! Okay, still moving! *WHAM WHAM WHAM!* and one for good show *WHAM!*   

Dead?  Not moving.  Touch it?  No. Yes need to clean it up.  Stinger? Ah. Lots of paper towels. Layers. Yes.  *grabs layers of paper towels, cat objects to the loud noise, having run into the hallway*  Okay, still no movement.  *pokes with papertowels a few times*  From the head then, just in case. *grabs and then flushes down the toilet*

...Great, I have to pee.  >_<



HOW did it get in the house~!  Now I'm paranoid we've a nest somewhere.