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[May. 8th, 2012|12:20 pm] |
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I've been feeling like tl;dring about Jules for a couple of days now, but I held off because I KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN YESTERDAY, so I was like "I will wait until that happens and then things."
( For your pleasure. )
Also I need to finish my application for ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gamemaker. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2012|02:42 pm] |
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( Thing #1: Real Life and Moving )
Thing #2: I am computer'd again and I'm kind of dying to log anything, so if anyone wants to log interim/RoR/post-battle stuff with Julianna, I AM ALL FOR IT. I am literally doing nothing but either unpacking or going to dinner the next several days, so! COME AT ME BRO. |
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| Julianna Lawson and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week |
[Apr. 19th, 2012|12:06 pm] |
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Some part of me thinks I should wait to tl;dr until the events of this week are completely over BUT I also know that I'm moving on Tuesday (BEST TIMED MOVE EVER) and will be completely away from being able to do more than read things at night until nighttime on the 27th, SO.
( I think I broke it... ) |
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[Apr. 15th, 2012|09:17 am] |
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I am falling horribly behind on everything because this is a thing that is happening:
( Peektur )
I need to write something for Julianna and something for Millicent and I think I'll probably end up doing both in the span of 3-4 days between my friends flying away and my mother coming. And then I'm moving. And I got my tarot cards read at the fair yesterday and the lady was like "this is the right decision and you're going to find work this summer and then start doing class-like things around October-November, but you'll get a raise and a promotion and stuff" so I hope Lavender and Parvati are actually right about Divination.
EDIT: Also, tangentially related, the Texts from Hogwarts Tumblr might as well be taking place at TM. Just saying. |
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[Apr. 9th, 2012|09:15 pm] |
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Yesterday was an entirely odd Easter. I was having woman issues, so I decided that since I have some hydrocodone that I was prescribed for my ankle, I might as well take it, only I was stupid and instead of taking one like you're supposed to, I took two and then went to Easter dinner, expecting to just be a little sleepy.
What resulted was about three hours' worth of text and Facebook flirting with my best friends and a lot of leaning on my husband and telling my mother-in-law how awesome she was. And then afterwards, a lot of sleeping and then some puking.
Lesson learned? NEVER AGAIN.
Meanwhile, I am apping the District 6 girl tribute at thereaped. Her name is Caravan Moreau, she has had three of her four older siblings die in the Games (because her family has shitty luck), and she is simultaneously bitter and optimistic about that. Like-- she's kind of weird. She's a romantic sort, who wants to believe things will end well, but she's seen a lot of reality telling her otherwise, so she's at odds with herself. She's going to LOVE being dressed up and prettied up for the Games because she is a total girly girl, and she also is an inventor type, who's good with a slingshot and will be making one out of sticks and her underwear as soon as she's away from the Cornucopia.
Her app so far is here. And I'm excited about her.
And then there's TM stuff and then there's moving stuff, but I am tired and don't want to think about the latter and the former is going to be another teal deer. |
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[Apr. 6th, 2012|11:10 pm] |
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Midnight hold openings give me ulcers. |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2012|11:59 pm] |
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I need to ramble about real life in here, because this is a blog that people from my real life don't read.
( tl;dr: being a grown up sucks )
RP-related, because I must always CDJ, Theodore giving Julianna a ridiculous detention has kind of cracked something in her, and she's going to be a lot more outspoken now because she's like "YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK THA POLICE" or something. Julianna also wants to kiss somebody or be romantic at somebody and I'm like "where was this side of you a month ago when Lavender was like *sets up on date*?" And Millicent would really love to give Regina a detention. |
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[Mar. 28th, 2012|01:52 pm] |
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So I decided that I'm going to give Julianna long hair because whee. And I went to Tumblr to find some Carey Mulligan With Long Hair Gifs, and I learned one important lesson:
CAREY MULLIGAN IS NEVER NOT THE CUTEST THING EVER.
Seriously. Look at pictures of her. It's disgusting. She's just adorableness in a package. Long hair, short hair, no matter what role she is in, she is just so freaking adorable and I love her.
( Also, Julianna's Scrapbook, as told by Tumblr ) |
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[Mar. 25th, 2012|03:59 pm] |
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So usually, Millicent isn't someone I like to tl;dr about because she's not a very tl;dr character, but this comment has inspired tl;dr.
( Layers. Yup. ) |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2012|10:08 am] |
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THINGS I REALIZED THIS MORNING
- I totally didn't do any IC/OOC thread/discussion/anything for Julianna's pub night drunken shenanigans last night.
- but everyone was at The Hunger Games anyway.
- I have no idea how to join chat rooms on AIM.
- sleeping until 11 every day and then switching that up to get up at 9 makes me tired.
- etc.
I think I owe a bunch of people logging. People should log with me! It will keep my mind busy! princess.magnificent@gmail.com and I will log with you forever and we will be the happiest! |
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[Mar. 19th, 2012|10:43 am] |
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So last night/this morning, I had a dream in which I was Julianna and I felt really bad for everyone who was going through shit (and this included not just the people at Hogwarts, but like. Every RPer I know, in WoW and SWTOR and everywhere). So I somehow had a private assembly where everyone was invited and I told them all individually how awesome they were and why. And Michael/Terry/Megan/Anthony/Lavender/Hannah/Neville were all in this bedroom behind the stage because Anthony had to go to the Lestranges' house and get cruciated so they all piled on the bed to listen through the window anyway and people loved what I was doing so much that a bunch of cheerleaders showed up to start cheering for people and it made me feel really good.
And it had a soundtrack of this. |
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[Mar. 18th, 2012|12:35 am] |
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Nngh, allergy-induced headaches blaggggh.
Someone reach through the screen tomorrow and force me to write logs for Julianna and Millicent ._. |
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| A thing that happened. |
[Mar. 16th, 2012|09:58 am] |
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So.
I'm now unemployed. Go figure.
It was officially a "lay off" and not a "firing" because it had nothing to do with my performance. In fact, both my awesome direct manager and the company's CEO said that they'd write me letters of recommendation anywhere I wanted to go and that they wouldn't have laid me off if money wasn't so tight. The CEO even said that if things ever picked up again in the future, he'd like to call me back and rehire me. So in terms of job-losing, I'd say it's not too shabby.
Kyle and I have talked about what to do, and we've basically decided that moving to Massachusetts is a thing that will happen. Kyle may have a job set up there already, and even if not, my parents have offered us use of the in-law apartment until we can get back on our own two feet.
So. It sucks, but it's not the end of the world. I'm just in a state of "wat do" right now because I haven't had this much free time in several months. :x |
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| I think I've done this before... |
[Mar. 12th, 2012|12:22 pm] |
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Your result for Roleplayer Test!... The BiographerPlotful, Character-Oriented, Platonic Like the Portraitist, the development of your character is the most important thing to you when you roleplay. However, you like your development and relationships to have some kind of overarching plot: you're not the type to enjoy a dressing room or any kind of roleplay where your character can't grow in at least a semi-structured manner. You enjoy exploring your character's psyche, but simple exploration isn't enough: you like to discover and then implement and use, and therefore continuity (which gives you "why"s and "how"s) is very important to you. You struggle when your character has no solid base in which to put down its roots, such as in games where there isn't enough structure or ones where the plot is continually changing. Take Roleplayer Test! at HelloQuizzy
Very true! |
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[Mar. 7th, 2012|01:25 pm] |
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Writing a log about someone learning to conjure a Patronus is very similar to writing a log about a male someone masturbating for the first time. My mind cannot unsee this.
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EDIT: And now I'm imagining some dorky wizard guy yelling "EXPECTO PATRONUM" during sex.
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| Weird thought. |
[Mar. 2nd, 2012|10:06 am] |
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So last night, I had all these Hunger Games inspired dreams, mostly relating to me being Katniss and things like that. Because that's the kind of dream I want to have, a dream about being forced to play for my life in an arena of doom. Not one about being on a beach in Maui. Heaven forbid.
Anyway. In between all these dreams, I had a thought.
What would happen if a girl chosen for the Hunger Games had her period while she was in the arena? :\a
It's kind of like "what happened when Bella had her period" but with fewer lady-bit-eating implications. Or maybe more because I doubt the gamemakers were like "here have some tampons lul" so girls with their periods were probably bleeding all over the place and attracting mutts left and right. And let's not even get into cramps.
I mean. Part of me wants to think that they'd have done something so that the girls didn't get their periods during the games because who wants to watch the episode of Survivor where the girl gets carried discreetly off the island because no one wants to deal with her bloody vag. That is not compelling TV, that is icky TV. But then I think that towards the end, they were like "man, we need these kids to start dying ffff oh hey, that girl from District 7 just got her period RELEASE THE HOUNDS!"
Unless periods didn't exist in Panem. But Panem is supposed to suck unless you're in District 1 or something so they probably did have periods. SO I AM LEFT WONDERING. |
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[Feb. 28th, 2012|11:21 am] |
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I've spent most of the weekend being either barfy as heck or wanting to curl up into a little tiny ball and sleep forever. That, in and of itself, has made checking in on TM an adventure, because I looked on Saturday morning and it was like
and then I came back Saturday night and it was like
on two entries or so.
So I'm just saying that Julianna hasn't read her journal all weekend and Millicent doesn't care lol. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2012|01:35 pm] |
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WORK IS SUPER STRESSFUL but that's okay because I have a meme.
PICK 1 OF MY RP CHARACTERS (PAST OR PRESENT!) & I WILL TELL YOU:
1. why I played this character.
2. my favourite moment in canon for this character. / my favourite moment in the game for this character
3. my favourite piece of headcanon for this character.
4. something about this character which makes me laugh.
5. something about this character which makes me cry.
6. One of your characters that I think would get along well with them. |
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[Feb. 15th, 2012|08:04 pm] |
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So I have this thing I do, when I pick up a new character. I look them up on DeviantArt and see what people have drawn of them.
Sometimes, this is a better idea than other times.
( Ladies and gentlemen, Millicent Bulstrode. ) |
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[Feb. 13th, 2012|11:04 pm] |
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- Am back in Texas and my knee hurts forever. wtf.
- I need to tl;dr about Julianna at some point, but not this point because bedtime should be soonish and...
- ...I need to finish Millicent's application. I'm literally one paragraph away. HRRGH.
- Listening to the Whitney Houston music we used in my dance class is not helping me be ready for bed in the least :| |
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[Feb. 11th, 2012|07:12 pm] |
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Bleargh, bored.
I had planned to spend tonight herpderping around in WoW (because we don't have SWTOR available up here), but I have no computer on which to do that, and my parents' internet is spotty at best. So many comments I've tried to make that have just not gotten posted.
I'm also completely exhausted. When we got in yesterday, at noon, we immediately went out to lunch with my senile grandmother and, after taking her back to my uncle's house, went to my aunt's father's wake. Kyle and I then collapsed before getting up early this morning to go see my awesome grandmother (which was, as the name suggests, awesome) and were there all day, and now we're just exhausted, except the whole family wants to go out tomorrow--to Uno's--and I'm kind of like I'd really just like to see my mother and father and brother and sister because I came up to see THEM not my 20 aunts, uncles, and cousins, but eh.
So tired. So very very tired and bored and wanting to go hide. |
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[Feb. 9th, 2012|10:51 am] |
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( Work stuff )
I haven't done one of these in a while, so here is a List of Characters I Would Like to Play Someday:
- Nymphadora Tonks: stephen_fry's analysis of the Tonks/Lupin relationship kind of pushed me towards this and made me really start thinking about the character. I think she could be a blast--outwardly confident, inwardly convinced that she's a freak who'd never fit in anywhere. I'd imagine that she probably felt even more like that, being sorted into Hufflepuff (which is the BEST HOUSE, but other people seem to see it as "the rest" and for someone like Tonks who has the double whammy of being a blood traitor AND a metamorphmagus, I don't imagine she'd inwardly conclude that it was the BEST HOUSE right away). The trouble is that there is literally nowhere to play her anymore, except for AU games. She's strictly stuck in Trio Era, and most Trio Era games focus on Hogwarts in DH rather than anything adult.
Which is to say that if anyone ever made a DH game about grown-ups (or hell, even a OotP through DH game about grown-ups. What an awesome game that would be!), I would beat people away with a MOP to play her.
(yes. A mop)
- Millicent Bulstrode: Which is ironic because she's open at tallymarks (and trust me, I have been very tempted), but the only reason I haven't held her is because I hate hate hate the lack of potential PBs for her (though, ngl, I did very briefly think about Amber Riley. Briefly). And that's probably more of a reflection on the faces in the media nowadays. There aren't a whole lot of brunette girls that could be described as "not a pixie" and who aren't terribly attractive. I like the idea of Mae Whitman, especially as she looks in Parenthood, but hurrrrr.
ANYWAY. I have so many ideas for her, with a deep and complicated psyche and also not being just the female Croyle. She'd be another outcast, like Tonks, but for different reasons and with different motivations and needs. And MAN I really wish I could find a PB I liked for her.
- Roxanne or Rose Weasley: For different reasons. In Roxanne's case, I just have this very specific headcanon for the George/Angelina ship that I wish I could find a place for. But at the same time, I just like the idea of playing these characters as NOT clones of their parents; maybe, instead, a Roxanne who's incredibly studious and a Rose who's a prankster or something like that. Weasley sprogs are always snapped up so quickly, though, and I'm really gunshy about Next Gen games.
- Lily Evans: Or as Lily Potter. I'm not picky. She'd be interesting to explore, but again, always taken. Hrrgh.
That. Was a shorter list than I expected.
(also it's freezing in here and I am not a fan) |
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[Feb. 8th, 2012|08:21 am] |
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That awkward feeling when you realize that you completely forgot your character's birthday because real life was eating you.
Oops. Sorry, Julianna :(
Also this is what work is doing to me, this icon. It's a long and convoluted story, but suffice it to say that my manager is resigning at the end of March and the rest of the marketing team is leaving voluntarily when she does because the president/CEO treats her and the rest of us like dirt. Being screamed at because in eight hours of editing, I was too busy trying to correct the grammar and fact-checking to notice that the bottom line of the logo was two pixels too thick is really not the best way to begin a Tuesday.
So things are special. |
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| Music memes are awesome. |
[Feb. 4th, 2012|12:44 am] |
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01) Set your music player to shuffle.
02) Whatever song comes up, pick your favourite lines from the song.
03) Do this with 30 songs and you'll have a list. (Skipping repeat artists / instrumental songs.)
04) Post the list on your journal and let your f-list guess what song the lyrics come from. No Googling!
( Under the cut~ )
--this has made me realize that a number of songs I have for lulz make me sound like a psychopath when I post their lyrics XD |
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[Feb. 1st, 2012|12:11 pm] |
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Samantha Barks cast as Eponine in Les Miserables movie.
I AM SO RELIEVED. The idea of Taylor Swift in that role... I mean, she's adorable and I think dancing to her music is a dirty secret all of us share, but she doesn't have the chops for Eponine. |
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[Jan. 25th, 2012|11:21 am] |
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Last night was a special kind of stressful.
( tl;dr: lightning makes nights bad )
In unrelated news, I am giggling way more than I should be at tallymarks and all the HOMG about Hogsmeade and dates. I kind of love it forever and always. This game makes me happy on the inside. |
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| Being a Marketing Coordinator, Part I |
[Jan. 18th, 2012|04:13 pm] |
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Part of my job as marketing coordinator is to collate the necessary materials for proposals for which we're subcontracting. Usually, they ask for understandable things: resumes of people who will be working on the project, project sheets that demonstrate our experience in the project's area, a company summary, and the logo. Occasionally, however, they ask for weird things.
Like today.
Among the list of things for today's subcontractor proposal was this:
Please include an inspirational phrase or saying that characterizes your firm's culture.
I... have no idea what to write here.
My husband suggested "We have awesome lunches" (because we do). I'm just stumped, overall. What sort of company culture can be summed up with an inspirational phrase? And what constitutes a phrase as inspirational instead of just trite and about the company?
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| Food for thought. |
[Jan. 6th, 2012|08:39 am] |
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So as a result of this conversation between Michael and Julianna (aside: homg I love this game), I woke up this morning thinking, and here is what I thought:
What memory/thought would you use to conjure a patronus?
It's got to be something strong, so it can't just be a memory of "oh, I had a good day the other day, sort of, I mean there wasn't any traffic." And it probably shouldn't be something where you think "Oh, that time with my ex was so fantastic!...I wish we were back together :c" Michael, in those comments, is theorizing that it works better when it's a memory connected to someone that you love and feel protective over, since the patronus charm is a spell of protection, but it's still food for thought.
( EXPECTO PATRONUM under here... ) |
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[Jan. 5th, 2012|12:38 am] |
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