uncannyvalley

Misquoting Jesus, The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart. D. Ehrman (242 pgs)
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code - Bart. D. Ehrman (207 pgs)
Through a Glass, Darkly - Donna Leon (326 pgs)
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Maaaaan, I've only read 3/10 books. I have to start reading faster.

Hi. I'm writing from captivity. Yes, I have been kidnapped. Do not call the police, I'm to be compensated for my trouble with sex and booze.

Well, booze anyway.

Went out for lunch with Morg. Did he take me home? No, he took me to Victoria. To be fair, he paid for my train ticket back. Buuuut this leaves me without Mush access, and I'm already getting the shakes. T_T

I will be back Tuesday afternoon. , I am so so so sorry for missing the healers meeting Mon night. Any chance of a log? Cleaned or not, no problem.

If anyone needs me for anything, you can email uncannyvalley@shaw.ca and I'll get it! <3 <3 <3

So, one week to beat KH2.

Now what?

Also, I went from not spending a cent for a year to dropping $300+ in two days. Yay for getting sibling a pair of boots, which was nearly 2/3rds of that. She needed them bad though, so it's an early b-day gift. There is one more element I need before I can start mailing packages out, and then I'll be so broke it's not even funny. Thank goodness for that ticket being already paid for.

Ooooh, and irony! The ticket came along with a random sampling letter requesting feedback. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH Oh I'll give you feedback alright!!!

(PS - AIM seems to hate me, and is not currently working. BLARG.)
(PPS - wrote 11 postcards. UG. Will mail tomorrow.)

To Do:
Wash bedding
Call Morgan, con into taking my pack down in his car, considering he'll BE HERE ANYWAY
Don't forget Todd's movies
Pack Toiletries
Call B & T, figure out what's happening when I hop off at Langford. Todd going to come walk me, or is he working?
Pack Lunch
Get to the train

Remember:
Writing paper (shop for more that isn't so bloody ... flowery!)
oragami paper
laptop
Go to bank
go to china town
go to Bastion square
go to inner harbour
go to museum? Buchart gardens?

O.O I want something like this here! *flails*

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1522158746296131750

SO COOL. For anyone wondering, she falls into the 'uncanny valley'.

To Do for today:

Doctors
Bank (withdraw $48.?? for train, $20 incidentals)
Liquer store, so I don't have to beg off someone else for the first leg of the 48 hour party
Mail that thing for Becca, DOH
Finish Laundry - 2 loads to go?
Wash bedding/vacuume so I have a clean room to come home to (Also, so certain OTHERS don't feel the need to come in and clean while I'm away. >.>)
Transfer programs to the laptop, test
Transfer dates to little calander I'm taking
Narrow down the books I'm taking with me to not read down to 3
Bring drawing stuff?
Pass on Boston Legal DVDs to Diana so she can watch while I'm gone
Find my confirmation # back, not that I'll need it. No one takes the train anymore. WONDER FUCKING WHY
Pack

Oh yeah, I'm gonna be dead before I even arrive. Woot.

PS apparently 'visit lady across the street and let her ply me with alcohol' should have been on that list. I have a new Oma (read: grandmother) it would seem.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *wheeze* AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(note: this is the sound of UV's mind breaking.)

I WILL HITCH HIKE HOME FROM VICTORIA. I WILL WALK. I WILL CRAWL. I WILL DRAG MYSELF ALONG BY MY TONGUE IF I MUST.

If I was into astrology, I'd say Mercury was in Retrograde or some shit. Victoria wants me and WON'T LET ME COME HOME. HOW can it be THIS fucking hard to get a return ticket? *SOBS*

WHAT sort of company prefers mail outs over Eticket print out? WTF? Hi, I'd RATHER spend 50 cents on this than make the client pay 2 cents in ink? ARG! 5 Agents. 5 before they changed it to Langford. It's not that they didn't notice. They just forgot, or only did half the ticket. And the guy who did the website? SHOT. MUST BE SHOT. OMFG. ... No, I take that back. I want dearly to wrap my fingers around his or her neck and slowly choke the life out of them.

*breathes* There. I am done. It's all good. Except the ticket is coming to the WRONG FUCKING ADDRESS.

So I was telling lavander that I never update because my life is sad, and there's nothing to write.

And I look outside my bedroom window, at the brightly sunny lawn and forest, the deer munching on grass and the three bunnies trying to stay out from under foot, the hummingbirds zooming by, and I realize - I'M TRAPPED IN A BAMBIE MOVIE OMG SAVE ME!

Notes from the home reno front:

1) Install new lighting FIRST. Paint wall SECOND.
2) If your hands and arms start itching like you've been fondling fiber glass just from the paint/patch substance, hey - be a pussy and wear gloves!
3) Pressing on the roller to squeeze out the last drops of paint is fine unless you are a) near the ceiling, b) near the floor, or c) in the corner near your mothers PERFECTLY PAINTED WALL.
4) Always have a partner to blame fuck ups on. Your Father works.
5) Why no, I haven't gotten over my deep loathing of ladders and their unstable footing in the last week.
6) Yes. Spending fifteen minutes fiddling with the stereo to make it play the music you want is a necessary part of home reno. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Especially if they aren't holding a roller.
7) The best part is the water fight afterwards when cleaning off your tools. Try not to do this near the cars, where you wind up spraying watered down paint all over them.
8) If you aren't cleaning up all the crap before you start working, at least try not to play soccer with light bulbs.
9) Putting the roller down within a few inches of the ground is fine - UNLESS YOU HAVE A CAT.

Well, hell.

It's freezing over you know. Cause that's when I said I'd take a staff position on a Mu*. Pull on your mittens folks.

Though. If you look past the 'OMG AM I DOING IT RIGHT' angst, it's kinda fun making the little ants scurry - uh, GM that is. Heh.

So I am desperate for new pens, having utterly given up on my art box ever being found. I look in the yellow pages. 2. /2/ art stores in all of the valley, and one will likely turn out to be a kids craft store, while the other has always leaned closer to office supplies. AUGH. Though, I know Totem's carried watercolour pencil crayons, so there's hope. I miss the Ink Well though. *sighs* I had hoped to go today, but it's been put off till Saterday now. I'm holding off my drawing until I HAVE REAL PENS DAMNIT.

Also Saterday, Morgan. Though ... I just realized I've completely zoned on if it's /this/ saterday, or later in the month. DOH. Oh well, not like I'm super busy!

I'm feeling good. My project is done. I somehow managed to escape getting bitched at over it like Alice is always bitched at, even though I totally dragged my heels. God. I hate Wiziwig, or whatever the hell acronym it is. It bloody eats code and swallows it, never to be freaking seen again. WHAT IS SO YUMMY ABOUT VALIGN?! AAAAAAAUGH! Okay, so the project was partially to test the editor.

FAIL

And now onto other things. That book thingy - yeah, I forgot about updating that. I'm a few pages from finishing about three other books, but since last update on that only the following:

A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle (278 pgs)
Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle (310 pgs)
The Pheonix Guards - Steven Brust (485 pgs)
Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust (547 pgs)

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Notice that as I strike books off the list, I add more to it? Yeah. Side note: My next character is going to be named Phineas. Is that not the coolest name ever? XD So I'm partway through Paths of the Dead, The Modern Gentleman, Arthurian Romances and Ghengis Khan - okay, I lied. Four books. Aborigional Myths is sort of an accioayla and me thing, so that's slower going. God, I can't belive it's already June.