Oh hai internets! I found you!

I'll be back in another six months! Don't go anywhere!

I am trying to kill time whilst I try to figure out this mix cd. So long time no see. What are the haps? Jerod and I went to the new Asian shopping center on Jimmy Carter and had dinner at a Bento restaurant, and then got panda cookies and chocolate cheezburger candy at the Hong Kong Supermarket. They're little chocolate graham cracker buns with chocolate patties in between. They're pretty amazing. And he bought an electric lawn mower today. And I got stuck in Winder for 3 hours and failed to make it to a football game, but that is a story for another time and place.

It is snowing like a mofo here in Lilburn. Jerod's dad called about 3 hours ago from the Sam's Club by my apartment and said there was six inches of snow on the ground. Apparently power is out all over Tucker, which may or may not include my apartment, since it's almost in Tucker. In any case, I turned the heat off when I left last night. I hope I don't come home to a frozen Sophie-cicle.

Still tho, it's pretty awesome. Kinda reminds me a little too much of the Ice Storm of 2002 (capitalized for little-old-lady-esque emphasis) but so long as the power doesn't go out for a week and a half this time, I think I'm fine with it.

Somehow, despite being unemployed for a month and making almost nothing for half the year, I owe the IRS more than $500. That's not including the $50 I owe the state of Georgia. I am so fucking livid right now I don't even know how to describe it.

edit: Jerod's magical tax software now has me getting a whopping $19 back from the IRS. That'll clean out my box at Odin's for real. :/

So Athens was fun last night. It was good to see Daniel and Dylan, even if it was briefly, and the set only about 4 songs long. It was weird getting hit on by old dudes who thought yelling at us and/or buying us CDs for bands we weren't terribly impressed by would lead to a score, but whatever. What are college towns for if not old dudes thinking they can make it with younger girls. Kristy's gays are fun, too. Its too bad the whole town apparently rolls up the streets for Sundays. Alas. I think I shall have to make it back for AthFest at some point.

I has a headache.

This is what I get for drinking wine out of a juicebox and killing zombies for hours.

The Physics of Meaning is coming to Athens on the 8th. I think I might make a day trip and go see them, since a) I haven't heard any of their new stuff and b) I still haven't been to Athens yet.

Additionally, Roman Candle is playing SXSW, which, again, makes me wish I had $500 to drop on a freaking festival. *sigh*

* I am pretty fine with Kieran Culkin. I am even more sweet baby geebus fine with Chris Evans. Mmm Chris Evans. I am internally squeeing with glee at the highly unfounded rumor that Pegg and Frost will play the Vegan Police.

* I still don't have a new more better job yet. HR and my manager are basically refusing to work with my temp agency, my manager even going so far as to tell them she has no idea if she'll want to hire me until my review at the end of the month. I can only translate that as me being unemployed at the end of the month, because she damn well knows if she wants to hire me or not already.

* North Kack is stealing my snow. Bastards.

* I'm debating getting a Twitter. Mostly because I think the whole concept of extraneous posting when one could just post to your blog is kinda silly, but on the other hand, being able to have the 90 different random things that pop into my head during the day that I'd like to post get posted in one big chunk is kinda intriguing. We shall see.

* Jerod got Chrono Trigger for the DS, and I very much look forward to playing his clear file when he's done with it.

* I have had a highly randomized series of dreams in the past two weeks that have popped up out of nowhere. One of which involved me meeting Pantalones new boyfriend and discovering that it was Tim Tebow, who was spending the off season hanging out in Maryland, pretending to be a hipster, and meeting girls on OkStupid. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BRAIN?

That's all I can think of for the moment. Oh well.

I finally finished Kavalier and Clay last night and I'm kinda smacking myself in the head for never reading it earlier. I've really got an itch to pick up either the Yiddish Policeman's Union or Wonder Boys next, but alas, I has a broke.

In other news, I have convinced Jamie (should she actually come to DragonCon which I am still not holding my breath on) to do an old-school Huntress costume. Hooray!

Um, so yeah. That's kinda it for the moment. Perhaps I can convince Jerod to stop playing Persona so we can go kill some zombies for a while. Tata!

So Left 4 Dead has allowed two things for me:

A) the ability to appreciate why those WoW nerds would hole up in their basements for days, subsisting on nothing but Cheetos and Vault, and

B) the chance to fulfill my life's true purpose.

This is possibly the greatest thing to ever happen to me. It's probably good that I don't have a 360 at home, or I might never stop playing.

OHEMGEE I hate truckers. I was nearly side swiped by one who couldn't decide if he wanted to be behind me or in the lane next to me at the state line. Additionally, Zaxby's is still not my friend, and probably never will be.

Debating if I want to deal with trying to go into Durham tomorrow and get some cookies from MadHats on the second leg of my journey. In any case, it's late as hell. Catch you kids later.

He's pretty good at presents. And now he's gone for a week! Sad panda. :(

If I don't get on here again before I head to NC, everyone have a Merry Winter Holiday of Choice!

If only it were this easy. Sassafrassin HotJobs and their 15 postings for unpaid Adult Swim internships.

Should I eve meet the ABC exec who handed down the order to axe Pushing
Daisies, I shall knee him in the groin.

That is all.

Oh shit, y'all. It's fo' reals.

I am so glad I waited till election day, because it took me exactly 5 minutes to vote. Sucks to be everyone who waited 8 hours in line last week!

Yeah I have nothing else to say right now. Gobama!

I am very tired of applying for part time jobs. I would very much like for one to fall in my lap.

But in any case, I'm going to go play Little Big Planet now, and that will make up for it.

It's official. I miss Chapel Hill, and more specifically fall in Chapel Hill, and all that that entails. And also wish I was in Minneapolis right now with everyone else having what are sure to be major lulz. :( Sad panda.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go get dressed up like an obscureish 90's cartoon character and get my party on. Tata.

Due to really shitty circumstances, I will not be going to DC to visit Pantalones as planned. This is, in a word, lame-o.

Also, I have way less done on my costume than I wanted at this point, and this displeases me.

Additionally, my insides hurt.

This is not my finest hour.

So what we learned last night was that talking like you're from Minnesota for the duration of a hockey game may make the people sitting in front of you want to murder you in cold blood. And that afterwards it's hard to stop saying "You betcha!" Oh, and also that shouting "Roll Tide" on a crowded Marta train is a good way to get death threats.

Also, I approve of the new addition of Thrasher Luchas to Blueland. Especially ones wearing capes and blowing the horn of Gondor after every goal. Which he got to do several times...

All my teams are starting out great this season. That's so exciting!

I had a dream the other night that was specifically about UNC getting 9
interceptions on Notre Dame. In the first quarter.

Also, I really think I'm more qualified to write the ACC football blog on
ESPN than the chick who's currently writing it, mostly because she seems to
have a general disdain for every team in our conference. Except Maryland.
And that's just wrong.

...I has one.

First carload deposited, second carload is go! Hooray!

Oh. My. God. I love Nedroid.

I cannot even look at John McCain without feeling sad about how much I dislike him now. We're talking a Weezer-esque deep-seated sense of regret here. That is highly distressful to me.

*sigh* At least Sarah Palin is continuing to make an ass of herself on national TV.

Jerod on Sarah Palin's view of Iraq: "We won. We got our initials on the high score."

Jenny on Sarah Palin in general: "Six years ago when I walked out of my house and said hi to my Russian neighbors..."

*sigh* Gorram politics.

Yeeeeeah, so remember how I used to really like Kenley?

Yeah. Bitch needs to go home. Now.

I'm going to assume there's a very good reason my mother hasn't returned any of my calls in a week, and that it's not an emergency surgery like it was the last time this happened.

Nice early fall days like this make me wish I was still in Chapel Hill. *sigh*

Apparently Ben Folds Five was tres awesome this week. And there's a home football game tomorrow and it's supposed to be nice and cool. And I'm listening to Massive Attack, tho not through headphones while walking through the quad.

Nostalgia is a fucking bastard.

1. Both my alma mater and new adopted college foozeball teams winning in stunning blowouts this week!

2. How completely adorable Joe Paterno is. I might add him to my "spiritual grandpas" list behind Stan and George and Dean, since I don't have a foozeball grandpa.

3. Free Penn State blue jello shots with every touchdown scored! Seriously, I love the Penn State alumni club.

4. That the Yuengling! It is finally coming! Next month! Yuengling for Halloween!

Other than that, I am debating if I want to sign a surprise!lease on Monday because it is looking like the only thing available in my price range for at least the next two months, or wait and see if this really adorable townhouse on the foreclosure listing might be a possibility. So yeah. Strange days.

Noooooooooo! It are not fair!

*sigh* Oh well. I saw them twice in Chapel Hill. I guess that will have to be good enough.

On a completely unrelated note, hooray for baaaaaby pandas! That was sufficient to put me out of the horrible mood I've been in since Monday. Also, hooray for ridiculously cute comments from 7-year-olds.

Yay.

Edit: I also forgot to mention the whole McCain-picking-the-most-unqualified-canditate-he-could-find,-possibly-by-throwing-darts-at-a-dartboard thing, which also made my entire fucking weekend. Blatanly obvious political stunts backfiring FTW!

I have cramps.

But that's ok, because I also have Nedroid.

And that's just diculous.

Nathan Fillion! Nathan Fillion! Hooray!

Also, I have forgotten how to drape. I'm glad I only spent three years in college learning how to do it. >:\

Less than two weeks, people!

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't realize draping was like falling off a bicycle. Also, Vitamin String Quartet actually does have a cover of Everlong and I cannot tell you how happy that makes me.

P.S. I have a temp-to-hire position scanning...stuff...in Marietta starting tomorrow. Yay 60 mile commutes for $11.50 an hour.

And I sold a necklace. It's like I'm rollin in dough or something.

Bigfoots! Chupacbras! Cats and dogs living together! What is the world coming to?

I finally have a sewing table (even tho it's totally just a $25 computer desk from Ikea), and am almost done with the purse for the Ramona costume.

I also had a new idea for DragonCon - since the cape for my Powergirl costume is jacked and I should probably make a new one, but don't have the time, fabric, or inclination since I would also have to make a new belt etc. etc., I'm just gonna cobble together a Galatea costume. I've already got everything I need but the gloves, and I can get those cheap at Rag-O-Rama or Psycho Sisters or some such.

I just want everyone to know that Nate just got his nuts stomped on by a 30 pound dog named Ella. His emasculation is complete.

That is all.

I have no plans ever ever ever to go see Twilight. I'm sure it's, like, the best book ever, since that's what all the 13 year olds on the interwebs are saying, so fine, whatever. Vampire Diaries was probably, like, 1,000 times better anyway, but whatevs. Today's 13 year-old-girls don't understand good trashy vampire/teen porn fiction like they used to. I get that.

In any case, any move that requires making the undeniable hottness that is Cedric Diggory look like this can go die in a fire, or bathed in holy water, or staked through the heart, or whatever. That makes me want to vomit. A lot.

Sparkly vampires. What the fuck.

Things which are cool: Ikea dropping off a 2009 catalogue on our driveway.

Things which are not cool: the kids in the house on the corner of Harmony Grove and Four Winds using their front yard as a DRIVING RANGE.

I'm bored today. I just finished My So-Called Life (what a thouroughly unfulfilling finale!), and it's at least three days before I can get the next disk of Studio 60, because for some reason I decided I wanted to watch Silent Hill again. Which, ok, yeah, I do, but I'd rather find out what happens to Jordan! and Danny! And since some birthday girl won't lend me her West Wing DVDs, I guess I will just have to steal something out of Nate's room, because I have nothing else to watch.

Yeah, unemployment sucks.

Ok nerds and nerdettes, I need some help. I've been thinking about paring down my Heroclix since I don't play that much anymore, and the idea came to me to use some of them to make a DC vs. Marvel chess set to sell on Etsy.

I've more or less got the logistics of making the pieces figured out, now I just need to figure out what characters to use for which pieces. Here's what I've got so far:

DC king - Supes
DC queen - Wonder Woman
DC knight - Batman

Marvel knight - Iron Man
Marvel rook - Punisher

I need to figure out what other characters to put where. I'm trying to stick to 1st stringers for the main pieces, and I'm thinking either 2nd stringers or villains or a mix of the two for pawns. And I was hoping to think of clever things, like the Dark Knight being knight, and Frank Castle being rook, but I'm pretty tapped outside of that. I'd thought Bishop for the Marvel bishop, but I'm not sure I even have two figures of him, or if he'd really be a big enough character.

King and queen for Marvel is also kind of a puzzle, because intinctively I want to do Black Panther and Storm, but that's kinda obscure. Outside of that, I feel like Cap is kinda in the Superman position, but I have no idea who to use for queen in that case. And then there's obvious couples like Reed and Sue, and Cyclops and Phoenix, but, yeah, I don't know.

ANYWAY. So if anybody has any suggestions, plz to be letting me know.

Unemployment is, suprisingly or not, quite boring. I was thinking of going home for the end of the week, just for a change of scenery, and then A) I realized that would be kinda expensive with the gas and B) Jenny's fiesta is Friday. So now I'm thinking of maybe taking a day trip somewhere. Asheville or Charleston keep coming to mind, although I think either of those might be a bit far (according to Google Maps, Charleston is only 4 and a half hours, tho I have a hard time believing that).

I might could swing that, tho. Get up really early Thursday, drive to Charleston, spend a few hours at the Battery or the beach, get some she-crab soup, and head home at dark. It's plausible. I shall consider it. I could use some ocean air right now.

Additionally, everyone who blew off Sunday night sucks, because I totally bought dip fixins, and now it'll have to wait until next week. :p