Today, I got paid to read fanfiction for 8 hours today at work.

This might not seem like a big deal to some of you, but considering that I can't use the internet at work... well, this took a little planning. I'm really pleased with myself. ^_____^ (I guess there are the odd compensations for being employed in a dying workplace?)

In related news, I now understand why everyone is all obsessed with that Jim/Pam business. Hee!

So, I am suddenly and inescapably addicted to The Office. I don't even know if I can go to sleep until I manage to get through season 3.

I...

I did not expect this, you guys. Not at all.


O____O;

It's been like forever since I really felt like drawing, so I'm very... rusty. Haha! I'm trying to get my hands back into the groove of actually handling a sketchbook, rather than just thinking of things that I ought to be drawing.

So, heads up, a lot of these have big problems (like head/hand sizes, wonky faces, etc) and all of them are very sketchy! But I guess I just wanted to prove that... I am drawing again? Yes. That.

( 12K, Inuyasha, Avatar, HP, and more doodle-ish things from work )

Phew! I spent the whole weekend cleaning out my desk, two bookcases, two big dressers, my fabric storage bin, and all my old ARTWORK from middle school up through today. I’M POOPED. I still have my closet to attack, as well as my large art materials to sort, but five bags of trash and two bags of clothes to donate sounds like a success to me! =D I know that sounds embarrassingly cluttered, but I’m not actually a pack rat! I just sort of… put things away and then forget about them? *sheepish grin*

Things I found while cleaning:

• my glasses (missing for a year!)
  
• class schedule (From freshman year. Of high school.)
  
• birthday cards (dating back to middle school)
  
• 2 prescription slips
  
• 2 gift cards
  
• 1 certificate for an hour-long massage

Long story short, one dresser is completely empty now and I should spend my weekends cleaning way more often!

Well… I actually didn’t spend the WHOLE weekend on that. ;D Friday was dedicated to mah girl stupidhero for her birthday! We went out to eat, then to the best bar in town (imho) and then to a dance club. It was a lot of fun! (Fun that I had sort of forgotten how to have, if I’m being totally honest.) Love you, hon!

I guess I should mention… I actually wrote this post while at work today, due to the fact that um, we have no work? Essentially our department is facing approaching doom simply because there isn’t any work coming to us. It’s pretty awful. Like walking around in your own grave.

That’s part of the reason I’ve been so out-of-touch lately. My brain has been so pre-occupied with worry over my job situation that I haven’t had much energy left over for anything else. =( Lame, I know, but there you are.

Anyway! I didn’t want to write a post about moaning. I want to write one about my awesome time at GenCon!

( Story games, Avatar LARPs, and Firefly, oh my! )

Off to GenCon!

Five days of gaming, friends, and parties, here I come! ^______^

Stolen from everyone.

• • Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.


• • NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.


• • They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.


• • You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( There might even be a reason they're in this order... )

So, Harry Potter VI was great fun!

There are some story elements I need to sift through before I pass final judgment, (Could we get a little plot point resolution up in here? Thanks.) but overall everyone did an excellent job. The film is just beautiful, the acting is top notch (the trio are really coming into themselves and Gambon & Broadbent are just outstanding), and it actually made me flail about with glee at times with how much they kept from the book.

It's really funny, successfully creepy, and surprisingly ship-y, but they could have punched up the sad another couple of notches. Although they did do a pretty good job at hitting the right moments of foreshadowing. Knowing the end of the story really does help, y'know.

I'm sure I'll have many more thoughts on it within the week, but for now, go see it! You won't regret it.

And now I'm going to bed! I have to be awake to go to work in 2 hours since I didn't ask for the day off. *sigh* Sometimes... I'm really not very bright.

Dear Person Who Last Redecorated Our Bathroom,

The solution to every problem is not "MOAR CAULK!" In fact, by solving every problem with "MOAR CAULK!" you have, in fact, created a whole new set of problems that must be solved with elbow grease.

Not a terribly large amount of love,
Megan



PS: Bathroom's old design theme (pirates) is out. New theme (The Order of The White Lotus) is in. Just try to out-geek me, I dare you.

PPS: I cannot wait to paint! EEE!

So, today I turn 25.

Huh.

I feel like I've let down my 6-year-old self by not becoming an international superstar or some kind of world leader by now.

On the other hand, I'm married to the man I love, I have a great family, a great family-in-law, fantastic friends, a bachelor's degree, a cute apartment, and a job that pays me. I'm really not complaining. (Sorry, 6-year-old me. It might not be glamorous, but is sure is happy.)

On the diet front, I've dropped from a 16 to a 12. Which is, well, progress and all, but it's still going to take a bit more for me to be able to look in the mirror and see anything but fat, y'know?

My goal is to be somewhere between an 8 and a 10 for GenCon in August. We'll see how that goes. But I do have motivation. ( Steampunk! )

As always, I love you guys! I'm so happy to have you all on my flist! (Even if I don't comment! Sorry!)

And I apologize for being such a boring little poot and not drawing anything. I think my dry spell is actually stemming from going to be early! I stayed up until 3 o'clock a few nights back just drawing some stuff again. But (aside from tonight, since I just got back from hanging out with friends) I've been hitting the sack around 10:30 every night. This leaves me well-rested, but uncreative! Alas!

PS: Star Trek was a delight, just FYI! XD

So, the reason that I have been sort of incommunicado lately is not because I am any less of a fangirl, but because I am currently... dun dun DUN... ON A DIET.

And we all know what a diet is. (It's "DIE" with a "T," fyi) Anyway, horror of horrors, I have to eat healthy and count calories and crap now. It's apparently working, as one pair of my pants is threatening to fall off my hips at any given moment, but it requires me to basically... beat up on myself?

This is so I don't accidentally forget to hate myself and eat food I actually like.

*sigh* It sucks being responsible and healthy. I mope about and deny myself the things I like because if I'm not always verging on depression, I'm just going to go right back to being happy and loving life and get even fatter. I can't wait until this is over and I can switch into "maintain" mode rather than "lose weight" mode. Any of you guys have diet stories to share? Misery loves company, after all!

Since I don't really like posting when I'm being Mrs. Poopypants (and the little bit of free time I usually give to fanart has gone to the dreaded EXERCISE) I've been a lump on you f-list. I'm sorry! Would you rather that I talk about real-life things or the books that I'm reading in lieu of fanart posts? Or just wait for me to find time to doodle again?

I've always sort of assumed that generally people are only friends with me because every once and a while I draw something they like, so I have this guilty feeling any time I glut-up your f-list with texty posts.

But anyway, HOW ARE YOU GUYS? I hope that you had a good Easter/Passover/totally secular weekend. =D I'll try to catch up with the ol' friends list here soon.

LOVE TO YOU ALL!!!

Y'know, this is something I've been thinking about for a while now.

Since getting some distance between me and the hullabaloo of the Avatar finale, I've realized there are some things that have really sort of... spoiled my enjoyment of the show. Both in general and in fangirl shippiness.

( This might harsh your cool, but I've just gotta get it out somewhere. )

Our trip to Chicago was great! amiraelizabeth is EVEN MORE AWESOME IN PERSON, OMG! (I <3 you, hon!)

I'll try and post what pics we took (camera died halfway through Saturday) and relate the story of why we walked most of the entire length of N. Michigan Ave twice!

I am only posting now because this is the first night I've been home! We got home on Sunday to find that our ENTIRE APT BUILDING was without water! So, even though all we wanted to do was crash, we threw another pair of clean underwear in our suitcases and headed over to Chris' parents to bum a bed in their extra room for the night.

Because of this (and other distractions, like friends adopting new wiggly little puppies) I am OUTRAGEOUSLY BEHIND in everything on the internet! What has happened to you since last Thursday, my friends?

I'll trade you this article that cracked us up for probably five minutes: "A man arrested for allegedly masturbating at his mailbox..."

And now back to reading through all this RaceFail '09 business, which is wildly interesting on a myriad of levels (even if some of them make me angry and rage-y and sad all at the same time).


PS: Watchmen was pretty damn good, huh? I sort of wish Zack Snyder had asked for my advice before releasing the finale cut, but I suppose that is just going to be the story of my life. (But seriously. Why wasn't Bubastis ever explained to the poor dopes who've never read the story?) That title sequence was really, really hot, though.


PPS: If you haven't read Watchmen yet, then GO READ WATCHMEN.

Whoa, I completely forgot about the Oscars tonight!

And then I remembered I didn't really care about them this year! So, hey! Now I don't have to feel bad about missing them for the first time in... nearly forever?

So instead of an Oscars post, I'll just leave you with Orson Welles, instead. He can express my feelings on the matter better than I could anyway. Even as a .gif.






OH WAIT! HAVE I MISSED THE DEATH MONTAGE? A LOT OF REALLY FUCKING AMAZING PEOPLE DIED LAST YEAR AND I WANT TO GIVE THEM THEIR 3 SECONDS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. IT'S A TRADITION.

Wow, I feel so disconnected right now! I got sick at work last Wednesday, managed to make it through the day, came home, fell into bed, and didn't wake up until most of the way through Thursday. I even had to bail out of the chat early so I could zonk out again! Augh. This cold has turned me into a sleeping machine!

I'm finally doing a bit better. I can still hack and cough and make a whole variety of disgusting noises with the best of 'em, but at least I can stay awake for hours at a time, lol!

In between sleeping it off, I read Multiple Blessings which is the book that Kate, of Jon and Kate Plus 8, wrote. It was a tough slog through the amateur writing... and it sort of made them more crazy in a less endearing way. I dunno how I feel about it now.

I mean, I love the show (those kids are stinking adorable, omg) but I feel like my affection for Kate's brand crazy has been tainted a bit? Anyone else know what I'm talking about? Something about it just rubbed me the wrong way.

So, (in retaliation, perhaps?) after that I reread Watchmen because I needed to refresh myself before the movie, of course! It was just as awesome as ever, although having it fresh in my mind might not be the best way to go into the movie theater, now that I think about it... Oh Zac Snyder, will this be your end? Death by fan-mauling is a pretty terrible way to go.

Also, I know that I have notes and messages to reply to from a lot of you, and I will be doing that soon! I promise!

Oh, and because I HAVE TO KNOW, how many of my f-list is familiar with The Dresden Files series of books? (Yeah, there was a TV show, but that's neither here nor there.) As it is my New Favorite Thing, I will probably be talking about it and pimping it out to no end, but I need to know if I have any buds who won't have to be converted. XD

Well, that was my weekend. HOW WAS YOURS? CATCH ME UP, MY FRIENDS!

So, I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days today.

Thankfully stupidhero was already planning on coming over tonight, so we're having a little Avatar Re-watch Party to make it all better! XD I'll be posting this at acrazyidea as well, but if anyone wants to join in with the chat tonight and watch along with us, you're welcome to do so!

We're going to play "The Cave of Two Lovers" and "The Beach" because it is scientifically impossible to feel crummy after watching either one of those episodes. (Singing hippies are good for what ails you, truefax.) Then we're diving into the 4 episodes of "Sozin's Comet."

We'll probably start around 8-ish, so, y'know, if you're interested you can stop on by! The chat info will go up at acrazyidea shortly. ^____^

I've posted 2 things in (technically) a single day to DeviantART. THE SKY IS FALLING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, THIS NEVER HAPPENS!!


Good Morning, Love by ~QueenOfTheCute on deviantART


In The Family Way by ~QueenOfTheCute on deviantART


Also, why do I hafta go to work tomorrow? I don't wanna. D=

Why couldn't I have been born stinkin' rich and just mooch off a mutual fund or something? *grumpy face*


Edit: GODDAMMIT, Avatar fandom. Couldn't you let me go one day, ONE FREAKING DAY without a bitchy comment about shipping on my art? Damn you. THIS IS WHY I NEVER POST SHIT BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE IT ALL ABOUT KILLING MY BUZZ.

( The only thing I drew tonight that didn't look like utter crap )

Except I got sick of it before I could even bother to think of a background. Suggestions? Even worth the effort? After staring at so many half-finished pieces of crap for so long, I've lost any perspective I might have once had.

I have had a headache for 2 days straight now.

Not cool. Not cool at all.

Also, I think I used to be able to draw, but judging from tonight, that time is long past. >=(

Ok, so I'm not a writer. Bear with me, please. This is more of a stream of consciousness thing, because I don't really have the skill (or time... man I'm tired) to edit my own text. ;D

I have to write, though, because today was an important day. Not only because it finally proved that if you let little kids of any skin color go to the same schools, eventually there won't be a difference between them.

Instead, for me, today started to heal the hurt and pain and worry and fear I felt every day since 2001. That wound that was opened every time I was called a dirty word for just admitting that I was a non-partisan liberal. Every time I was damned to hell for explaining that I thought it was healthy for a society to have discussion and honest debate between differing opinions and beliefs. Every time I was told I was an idiot for believing that people have a responsibility to themselves and their community to change every wrong they can into a right.

( Today, for the first time in my adult life, it didn't hurt to remember that I am an American. )

I wonder if I can call in sick to the office tomorrow?

"Hi, um, I came down with a terrible case of Tegaki and it kept me up all night, so I won't be into today. Very contagious. Crippling, too. Uh huh. Sure. See you once I'm recovered, thanks!"

*sigh* Maybe one day, in my perfect world.

( In the meantime, I'll just lose sleep on account of being dumb. =D )