I'm not sure if I've traveled more or less than I thought.


visited 21 states (42%)
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visited 11 states (4.88%)
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visited 9 states (25.7%)
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as I am slowly able to get back into contact with my friends from India. Seriously cool!

I absolutely could not hold my suspension of disbelief for this movie. And these are not spoilers, if you've seen the trailers you get this much information. So the premise that a new technology came out allowing people to interface with human like androids and within three years the entire world except for a few people with ideological issues with the surrogates have at least one. The entire world. And my suspension of disbelief died. Because how is everyone affording these things? I mean I still know people who don't have ipods. I even know a few people without cellphones! And that's in the metropolitan US! It doesn't seem as though they are giving these things out for free, so how can the whole world have one?

So yeah. Complete killing of my suspension of disbelief. I can't believe in your world if you are ignoring basic economics people. Sigh. On the plus side, watching the actors move just the tinest bit stiffly and their controlled expressions when they are playing the androids was very cool. And the make-up was brilliant. But if you want to see a movie where the world makes sense go see Gamer. And you get the bonus of seeing Michael C Hall be completely brilliant and diabolical.

Just look at this sweetie. I want to take her home so badly and find out if she and the cats absolutely hate each other or if I could keep her, Sadly, I live in a second story bachelor apartment, work an average of 50-60 hours a week, and have very little money. But ohhhh, I want to bring her home.




Ok. Back to the five year plan that gets me out of debt and into a place where I can have a dog. Until then I guess I'll just have to keep dreaming.

The stomach bug is no longer ignorable and I'm missing work today. Aargh!

So I have about four thousand sewing projects that I'm working on right now when I'm not working for angsting about school. As you might or might not know we are working on cleaning out some of my grandmother's stuff including an impressive fabric and pattern stash which means that I have acquired an impressive amount of fabric and 50s and 60s patterns. So I'm trying to get those made up. About a third (10) have been cut out and I'm starting to actually sewing them now. I'll try to post pics as I finish them.

In addition I have my usual stack of projects that I am trying to get ready for upcoming cons and events. Ok, right now just cons really. I've decided to go with themes for my next couple of cons to keep things slightly more sane. For Loscon I'm going with a firefly theme for the daytime which means that I need to alter/update/complete my Zoe and Inara costumes. I'd like to make the Kaylee from the movie, but if not I'll wear the one I already have. For the night events I would like to finish Shilloutte from Watchmen and either my Goth Disney Belle or Sand Serif from The Spirit.

For ALA I'm going with a Catwoman/Selina Kyle theme so I need throw together a few Selina Kyle outfits, adjust my purple spandex catwoman, and make the newest comic book version and the Michelle Phifer version. Whichever I finish in time will also be my Halloween costume. So here's good luck to me and we'll see if I finish any or all of these. Wish me luck!

So I promised ages ago that I would post finished pictures of the costumes I made for Costume College. Umm, better late than never?

So I only managed to finish two of them. My suit for the gala which I think came out nicely



and the feather duster which simply became a maid's outfit and I'm not as happy with

5 year olds (or fake 5 year olds, whatever) slash. And it is the cutest thing ever!!!!

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/740162.html

So let me preface this rant by saying that I do not hate my new job. In fact, as far as jobs go it is my least hated job other than my archiving practicum and internship. For many reasons.

A. I am actually qualified for it and don't actively hate it. This is rarer than you might think as most of my jobs have fallen into at least one of those categories. Either I suck at it (retail) or I hate it (retail, anything to do with children, the whole day and a half that I spent telemarketing. Boy that one made me feel dirty.)

B. I like the people I work with.
a. the managers a doll
b. the sales staff have been completely helpful and nice, even when I seriously screwed up on my second day
c. the janitor is a total sweetie. Seriously, the man goes on food runs for us on his brake.
d. the people in my department both includes my friend from my old job B and most of the rest have been welcoming

So when I now go on my massive rant about my day today keep all of that in mind. :)

First I get very little sleep last night and I'm still very worried about Kaylee. I get to work (on time!!!) at 10 and discover that the other person who is supposed to be working the day shift with me called in sick. And there are less people on the day shift than there are on the night shift when I usually work. So I'm the only one there. OK, not the first time that that has happened. So I work and its fine. Because I'm the only one there I get a bigger percentage of annoying people than usual, but hey, such is life.

And then lunch rolls around (two hours late because I kept having to deal with people who needed to be helped right then!) and I realize that I forgot to bring my lunch. And the janitor already made his food run. Dammit. I manage to scrounge a couple of apples and a pepsi and start working on the candy I keep in my purse and manage to keep my blood sugar from going completely wonky and turning me into a complete wreck. But by now I'm staring at the clock and counting the minutes until I can leave. And have I mentioned that I have been having stomach problems for the last couple of days that are making me miserable, but not quite miserable enough to stay home? Yeah. I am not in a good mood.

So twenty minutes before its time for me to go I get three horrible people in a row. The first two were normally horrible, the last tried to grope me. I got him thrown out of the building. Have I mentioned that I love my new co-workers? I do. They completely supported my refusal to deal with him (which should not be the huge deal it is. sigh), threw him out of the building, let me go home early, worried about me, reassured me, and were generally awesome. And the fact is that I would have dealt just fine normally but with all of this I just couldn't deal. And they were all awesome but that didn't stop me from wanting to punch someones face in.

So I start driving home, looking forward to microwave meals with protein, milk that won't make me sick, and cuddling with my remaining cat. And then I can't find parking within four blocks of wear I live because there is some event happening at the church across the street. I finally find parking and am stomping up the outside stairs of my apartment when I hear this faint but desperate yowling. Specifically, Kaylee's yowling. So I search and I search and I find him hiding behind a trash bin under the stairs, pull him out, cuddle him to me nearly crying, and carry him the rest of the way home. Where he finally stops yowling. And between food and cuddling both of my babies I suddenly feel much better about life, the universe, and everything. So yay! My baby came home!

Three days ago my cat Kaylee disappeared from my second story apartment. I looked for him but I wasn't too worried. Both of my cats have an amazing ability for hiding in my one room apartment and then reappearing from a box or behind a piece of furniture. By the second day when I still had not seen him I started to get worried. I searched every part of the place, moving furniture and opening boxes. Still no cat. And River was being strangely affectionate with me in a way he usually only is with his brother. I did find that one of the screens was detached enough to let a cat out though. So no big deal, I'm on the second story, there was no where he could go but the roof. But he wasn't on the roof. So I started checking the ground all around the house for evidence of a dead cat that had fallen from the roof. Nothing. So now I'm just hoping that he is ok out there somewhere in the big mean streets of LA and not scared or hurt or dead in a ditch somewhere. And I'm keeping that window open in the hopes that he will somehow come back. And his brother and I are curled up together missing his sweet, cuddly, affectionate, demanding, annoying presence.

Best response EVER to the whole Disney bought Marvel thing!

My cats are being strangely affectionate. I fear a diabolical plot.

In other news I start my new job on Tuesday.

But although I am certainly not going to qualify for the rapture I'm also not technically atheist. What do you think? Do I qualify?

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

or very gross or both.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/pee-powered-cars/

they go and do this shit.

http://www.slate.com/id/2223214

The mens suit is done. Done, Done, DONE!!!

The ballgown underskirt is done and I'm ready to start on the outer dress. Other than that I still need to figure out the hair and accessories.

The jacket for the feather duster has been started. I still need to work on the sleeves, stomacher, and trim.

Also, I'm planning on making stockings. Am I kind of obsessive? Yes I am!

I love slow days at work. I'll post pictures as soon as I get around to taking them!

Also, the underscore key no longer works on my laptop. I have to copy and paste it in anywhere I need it. In case you were wondering, this totally sucks.

So I dream that it's about five years ago and I'm still living with Mom. And for some reason she decides that it would be a really good idea to move to the moon colony. So we did. Without telling anyone. And it was awesome!!! The spaceship! Which looked just like the enterprise for some reason! The skyline! The awesome gleaming futuristic buildings! The four costumers, two historians, and three kids reading the Wreede book I refuse to read that were all on the same cabin of the ship! The fact that we somehow still had high-speed internet! The impressive percentage of extremely hot and single people on the colony!

Seriously. Best. Dream. Ever!!!

So I have three costumes I'm trying to get ready for costume college-a 1780s nobleman's suit, Bess' brown ballgown from The Duchess, and my feather duster dress.

So first the nobleman's suit. Shirt, waistcoat, and breeches are done and the coat is wearable if not exactly where I want it to be. Yay! It still needs shoes, stockings and a stock though.

The ballgown is mocked up, fabric bought (and given, thanks Jen!), and the underwear done. I just need to sew it together and work out the trim. Well, and the shoes, hair, and accessories. Serious yay though!

The feather duster is also mostly mocked up and put together. The underwear is done and the jacket mocked up. I have the fabric to make the jacket (thanks again Jen!) so I just need to actually sew that together. The skirt is a little harder as I'm still working out how to make it look like a feather duster. Suggestions welcome btw. After that I just need to put together the cap, shoes, and accessories.

So overall I think that I doing pretty good. I may actually get all of these done. Which would be seriously cool.

I have an actual morning shift tomorrow and I can't sleep because my uterus hates me. Have I mentioned recently how much I hate my life lately?

I was watching the opening to a NCIS episode and when I saw the body I thought, huh, Bones really should be looking at this. There is so not enough physical evidence for the NCIS teams. I am such a crime show geek.