we got all night

I meant to watch TV today and instead got stuck reading fanfic I've been meaning to read. Then I cleared out my bookmark folders of TLDR links, all the fics I've been recced, organized my instapaper account so I can get to the fics on there faster, and started making a logo/brand for my production company that I've dreamed of making for a while. I'm not going to be able to move to San Francisco for my dream job and internet TV is cool, but what comes after that? So I'm focusing more on becoming a producer for a magazine/talk show or a writer for a comedy. We'll see how things go. Might as well do it myself, right?

Other than that, things are pretty chill. I'm entirely focused on this production company dream right now and clearing out all these stories I've been dying to read. I need to make a budget for:

- Robert Schwartzman CD/Concert (SURPRISE, I KNOW)
- The World Cup of Quidditch (btw, if anyone is coming to NYC for that and wants to make it a fandom meetup I AM ALL FOR THAT)
- Halloween (IDEK WHAT I AM EVEN DRESSING UP AS YET *RUNS AROUND*)
- Xmas and birthday gifts
- My new phone

...not necessarily in that order, but FALL, Y U SO BUSY.

I need to clear out my flist here, too. Not a cut, just... all the comms I skip lately. I need to do the same at Twitter and Tumblr, too.

This spring weather is doing amazing things for my sanity. I find myself smiling a lot more lately than I have in a while. I'm a lot less stressed, much more invigorated (although part of that's probably the spring break, too), etc. I want to do internet spring cleaning, but I don't have time right now.

Those of you who watch/know anime/manga, what does it mean when you can't see the character's eyes? Like this? Does it mean anything? I can't find anything on tvtropes about it. I'm reading it as they're shady or ashamed, but there's other tropes for that, and in that particular scene Kazahaya is just walking neutrally, so I'm confused.

Wow, remember when I didn't even care about anime? WHAT IS THIS YEAR? I've got three series on my laptop to watch this weekend alone along with five manga series bookmarked on my phone's Manga Browser. It's like 2010 hit and Japanese culture invaded my heart. Anyway.

I got my instructions for graduation next month and now I can't help seeing the end in sight. It's exciting!

And I finally got myself a new layout! It's been up for about two weeks, but I only just decided on a header I liked. I was going to do rotating headers, but I like my rotating headers to have a similar theme and the ones I was making were all over the board. It's been a while since I had a Psych-only header, anyway.

Oh, and Bijou is sick, lol. She had a vet appointment on Thursday and I guess they gave her kennel cough accidentally via the shot used to prevent it, because she's got a runny nose (lol idk dogs with running noses are kinda still adorable, even if I'm the one constantly cleaning her nostrils) and keeps coughing (which we all thought was just her retching at first, because it's the same sound). I've never had a dog get their version of the common cold before and it's kind of hysterical and adorable at once. I think it's stupid that they even have bothered giving her that shot, because she doesn't go anywhere or go near anything that would give her kennel cough anyway.

( How To Make It In America )

( Lost )

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( Here, have some super-short but cool videos I saw on The Digg Reel (which I'm also still behind on) )

I was so bored today. Life's not as fun when there's no movies to watch, E3 has no conferences and you're not in the mood to marathon TV. I did finally see all of CQ, but apparently I was only missing the last five minutes. WTF.

So I got started cataloging and re-naming all the macros I've saved over the last two years. IDK why I'm suddenly in "cleaning" mode for everything. Fic, links, macros, movies...

But I love macros. And I really love those pepper macros and I've been collecting the fandom ones like they were trading cards. I guess macros are trading cards for fandom, in a way. I wish there was a pepper macro for Steve Wiebe. I would do it, but I wouldn't know how to be random and witty like most of them are. And macros are best when they're funny. When they're not, well, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

I also re-did my layout. I can't go without a smooth sailing layout for too long. It's just simpler to me. Plus, I did so much re-editing with this one that I don't think I can still credit the designer. I still am, though. Because I'll never be able to make a layout by scratch, I don't think.

LIVE DIGGNATION TOMORROW AT WEBSTER HALL. YOU BET THERE WILL BE A RECAP WHEN I GET BACK, OMG. I might even re-watch the Jimmy Fallon episode after (Bryan Brinkman's going to the live Diggnation too, lol) and picspam that as well, who cares knows.

Lia

I spent a good six hours yesterday fiddling with my layout and then gave up and switched to this layout by grrliz. I change my layout too often to fuss that much. Oh, well. It is pretty, even if the headers look a bit out of place with it.

I don't feel like watching my sims do stuff or paying attention to a movie right now, so I guess it's ~*~meme~*~ time.

( iTunes meme )

From jadedquill
Go here and pick out five random quotes that somehow resonate with you (keep going until you find the right five), then post them. Here are mine:

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Norman Douglas

Also, while I was doing this meme, I saw this. :D

And from labellereine Comment on this entry, and I'll...

a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Lia

I feel strangely productive for not having done much.

* Made new headers, wasn't too motivated to change the layout and/or color scheme.
* Added a "current desktops" section to the sidebar
* Fixed tags: deleted tags I hardly use, re-tagged other entries
* Uploaded/deleted some icons

Hmm. Maybe one day I should get around to cleaning out my music.

To-Do:
& Clean out music folder (6GB!)
& Clean out movie folder (3GB...?)
& Re-organize LaCie drive
& Sort out video folder (!$%@#!)

You'd think I was cleaning my room, wtf.

Lia

The internet is being a pain. I really want to listen to about ten albums that my mom used to listen to when I was younger and haven't even done anything I planned to today. And as much as I wanted him here, my nephew is hogging up my Wii time.

Psych was awesome, more later once I've watched it again and fifty people haven't called my house in the span of five minutes of each other. But if James and co. end up at the U.S. Open again, I'll be stalking Queens during my free time this week, thank you. I need to go upload my James Roday tennis icon again.

I changed my layout yet again. I went with the ever popular minty_peach and threw up a new header for the time being. It's incredibly hard to find good stock images of prep/boarding school/catholic school girls in school desks chewing on pencils. Eventually I wittled down my ideas to just an image of a tie and Angela Lidvell (I'm still slightly obsessed with CQ, even after only having seen 75% of it) who I just edited into looking like Luna. Or at least that's what I was going for. And if I ever find a decent version of Mellow's "Code: Dragonfly" I will die happy.

Lia

I'm officially bored of the Grindhouse layout. LOL Three layouts within the month so far. Damn.

Anyway, I've been obsessed with this layout and it was going to go up eventually on my layout. I edited it a bit. Scroll down to the bottom footer to see the difference. Actually, the skyline is different too. That's the skyline from Yankee Stadium. See what I did there? I made it my own hometown ;D

Yeah, I'm a dork.

Lia

P.S. WHY IS THERE NO THE DEPARTED MOODTHEME YET? Do I have to make it? *sigh*

Yeah, I don't know what's up with my new layout. I wanted red red red. But somehow it's not looking the way I wanted it to. Whatever. It's good for the moment. And my header won't rotate because damn Atspace doesn't understand PHP. And LJ won't allow Javascript so I can't do it the old fashioned way. Boomspeed cut off my free account too so my Shawn and Gus sim uploads are gone, plus a few of my other javascript programs. I'm going to pay them for a month so I can get them back and offline, then cancel. I may take up Atspace on the paid accounts so I can use PHP when I want... but that's later in the game.

But there is hope in the mist! hopesandfears and I are taking over the Psych Online fansite! This is going to be awesome. I've had fansites in the past, but no one ever went to them so they were mostly for my own amusement. At least I know there's visitors to this site. And I've got someone to help me out so I don't slack off.

College is going well. No friends yet, but I don't expect to make many on the first week. Give me a month or so. I realized that I made no new friends my second semester at Pace so most likely I won't be bothering much here either. Tomorrow I have only one class, but I'm bringing my camera so I can take pictures. If you have any requests, let me know. Yes, I will be snapping geese and squirrels so don't fret over those.

Uh, memes? Yes? OK.

( ABC meme )


( Another '10 weird facts' meme (can you tell I love these?): )

Lia

P.S. People who spit on the floor in the house are disgusting. My damn dog doesn't even do that. EW.

Muhahahaa! New layout, profile and default icon people.

Notice the huge space between Jensen and Milo. I couldn't think of who else to put. I mean, I love Jared and all, but I didn't want him up there. :-p The whole point of the layout was my favorite two characters from my favorite fall shows. But I also wanted the hottest ones. So that's why S60 isn't represented. Imagine seeing Josh, Adewale, Jensen BRADLEY, Milo... Brad just doesn't fit. Sorry Brad, but you're just a different kind of amazing. And I just couldn't find good HQ pictures of Charlie Finn, Josh Radnor or Jason Ritter, so that's why they're not there either. I was thinking of putting Leonard Roberts, but it was hard enough to find pictures of Milo and Masi alone. I wasn't going to deal with finding Leonard too. So... new layout. Enjoy it ;-)

Lia