My 2¢

It was -3*F this morning during my drive in. My office, on the other hand, was at 81.5*F. I just can't win somedays.

I'm on to you body. You think it is 6:00am but the clock says 5:00am. We can easily get another hour of sleep, body. You know you like sleep.

Not that sleep is easy to get at the moment.

Biggs, a very cute 7-week old German Short-Haired Pointer, is the latest addition to the Wilson zoo. He's a cute gangly mess of gonna-be-a-big-boy puppy, but he is also a coward. And can't sleep at night alone, so he tries to howl. All. Night. Long. He's lucky he's so cute.

Please don't try to have an intelligent conversation with me for the next few days. I'm just barely managing coherent thought.

My first free weekend in almost two months... and I spent it sick. Still sick today, that's why I'm at home posting to LJ instead of working. Weee.

And now, because Tine told me to:

A meme

10 years ago: Let's see 15 in Oct, that would be sophomore year of high school or more accurately, last year of high school. I hated that place. Moving on.

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5 years ago: So 20 this time. Senior year of college. This would be the only semester I made the Dean's List. Took an awesome course called "Medieval German Literature in Translation." Totally fun. Took a lot of literature this semester.

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1 year ago: Now I'm 24 and working at the U. Still working there. Same department and everything.

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Yesterday: Cold got worse. Finished watching chapter 10 lecture videos. Did laundry. Bought Ma's birthday present.

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5 snacks I enjoy:
1. Peanut butter and honey sandwiches
2. Nuts
3. Crackers/Chips/Popcorn
4. Candy
5. Fruit smoothies

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5 songs I know all the words to:
1. Oh My God - Legally Blonde: the Musical OST (and most of the other songs from the musical)
2. Memory - Cats (and most of the other songs from the musical)
3. pretty much any musical I like I end up knowing all the words to
4. pretty much any Disney song
5. "Friends, forget the cares that bore us" choral song, heck, almost any song I had to sing in elementary school

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5 things I would do with 100 million dollars:
1. Pay off my loans
2. Purchase a nice condo
3. Buy my parents something nice (like a bathroom remodel and a new roof)
4. Consider going back to school
5. Purchase new furniture for previously purchased nice condo

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5 things I would never wear: (for the sake of, I'd try almost anything in the privacy of my bedroom, I will assume this means out in public)
1. Two piece swimsuit
2. Furry costume (I loved working in the character room, never ever want to wear them)
3. Any outfit that failed to cover body parts that are considered "indecent" in the regards of "exposure"
4. Sleeve-less or short-sleeved tops
5. Shorts or short skirt

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5 favorite TV shows:
1. Castle
2. Project Runway
3. [hiatus] Leverage
4. [hiatus] Eureka
5. [hiatus] Warehouse 13

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5 bad habits:
1. Picking at things
2. Eating too much
3. Sitting at the computer too much
4. Impatience
5. Constant self-judgement

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5 biggest joys:
1. Completed projects
2. Role-Playing Games with friends
3. Family (love/hate addiction)
4. Sleep
5. Good health

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5 favorite toys:
1. Computer
2. Crafts
3. Role-Playing Games
4. Other people's minds
5. Squishy, stretchy, malelable, posable, random stuff to fidget with

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5 fictional characters I would [love to hang out with]:
1. Mrs. Anne Wentworth
2. Granny Weatherwax and the Librarian
3. Wash... heck, the entire Serenity crew before the stupid movie killed my favorite two
4. Mairelon the Magician and Kit
5. Morwen, Kazul, Cimorene... the entire cast of good guys from that series

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5 people I tag to do this:
-- If you are reading this, you have probably already done it or been tagged. So I'll pass. --

Something amuses me about the latest chemistry chapter I've been working on. It is about the quantum-mechanics of electrons in atoms, and I think I may be understanding it.

There is a part of me that is so happy inside.

So last night I went out with a friend to see the stage musical "Mary Poppins." I left with rather mixed feelings. Let's start with the good.

The production was amazing. The sets looked like drawings and pop-up books, and all the little tricks for Mary's "magic" and moving things on and off the stage were fabulous. And the costumes. Bum rolls anyone? Very fun, particularly in the "talk" shop and the park scenes. The dances were great (I kinda really wanna learn the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" dance). But the songs were meh... some old, some new, some good, some not-so. The best new song was the opera-esque battle between Ms. Andrew and Mary, well at least the opera-esque part. Now more about Mary.

She was annoying. Couldn't spell humble to save herself. The children weren't much better, being total brats. According to the all knowing Wikipedia, these are more representative of the original book characters. Her saving grace though was the little thing between her and Bert. I'm sorry, it was cute. Bert was totally awesome by the way. And the story is a hodge-podge of what I remember from the film and, again according to Wikipedia, parts of the books.

All in all, a good performance.

Oh, but the toy scene? Creative? No question. Well done? Nost definitely. Creepy scary? Yeah, a bit.

And remember: always clap loudest for the pit (and crew).

Fest....

No more sleep until October 10th.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

( And yet another meme. )

Kooza is awesome. The costumes are fabulous, the contortionists are amazing, the wheel of death is terrifying. If you can go, do it.

Your result for The Which Discworld Character Am I Test...

Susan Sto Helit

You scored 91 intelligence, 79 morality, and 43 physical strengenth!

Take The Which Discworld Character Am I Test at HelloQuizzy

Don’t take too long to think about it. List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. The Last Dragonlord
2. Dragon and Phoenix
3. Persuasion
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
6. Magic & Malice
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. A Stranger in a Strange Land
9. Old Man's War
10. Joy Luck Club
11. Jane Eyre
12. Rainbow's End
13. The Dresden Files Books
14. Dracula
15. Brave New World

If you are not yet reading Dreamless, you should be.

( Way too many quiz results. You were warned. )

Hilarious and not safe for work... though I watched it at work... during lunch.

Actually, I have only tried this author once and did not care for her. Perhaps I should try again.

( Your result for Which fantasy writer are you? ... )

Bored? Know your birth date and time? Try this:
http://astro.cafeastrology.com/

Does anyone else think it is odd that my chapstick has a warning to "keep out of eyes"?

Up
I do not know how Pixar does it, but it almost appears as if they can do no wrong. Up is wonderful. Be warned it does tug your heartstrings and it is not a movie that could be watched frequently, but it is beautifully done. I would go into my favorite scenes, but I do not want to spoil it for anyone. Just go see it.
***** 5/5 stars I saw it in 2D and as far as I can tell I did not miss a thing.

Star Trek
I really liked it. My one complaint is that I would love shaky close up camera shots to go out of style (I am looking at you Mr. Abrams). Otherwise a lot of fun.
Oh and the little speech that circumvents the entire previous Star Trek stories but acknowledges that they did happen was hilarious, but only in a god-mode kind of way.
***** 5/5 stars See! I do sometimes like movies.

A good use of your time.

My dream last night:

I dreamed that I was the avatar, aka embodiment of, the essence of ice magic. Doomed to live until I found the man who could master all the elements of magic in a world that believed in magic without having a single magic user (generic mountainside vaguely medieval land). I searched for a millennium and finally found the boy when he was a baby. By threatening the parents, I was granted access to the child as an older sister-like figure whenever I wanted. As another condition of my undying life, I had to locate his soul-mate, so I spent the boy's childhood teaching him how to work magic all forms of magic except ice magic(because for some reason I could use all the magic in the world) or traveling the lands to find his soul-mate. When the boy hit his late teens, I found the girl and brought her to him. They were uber-shy around each other at first (they did not know about the soul-mate thing) but I had to leave them to defeat a monster that was attacking our home. When I got back to them, she had become addicted to some substance that took away her will and made her violent in a reactive way. The only cure was to bring her to my home universe (because I apparently was not from their universe) and have her system purged by the magical drain hidden underground (my universe did not believe in magic but apparently held this "Shadow of the Colossus" looking drain). We all crossed over via a mansion-face that floated in space that when you circled it to the other side looked like a slightly altered mansion-face and walked through the front door straight to our goal. The drain was guarded by a bunch of old men and women who knew that this journey must happen, and offered cryptic and useless advice. We celebrated purging the girl's system and in the boy's excited display of power he finally gained access to the ice magic he could never work previously. This is when I suddenly started having power fluctuations. We all then traveled across town, by flying over the industrial city and bending train bridges that covered a river, to a subway station that was the cross-over point back to the limbo mansion-faces in space that would return the soul-matched pair back to their universe when an assassin, meant to kill the boy found us. A subway was passing by the manhole exit we were using and I put myself in the line of fire to save the boy using the last of my magic to kill the woman; however the woman had shot me. The rest of my party had escaped, but when I did not join them, they returned to find me dying and coughing up blood on the subway tracks. The boy was distraught to learn that he had only been able to access the ice magic that he could not have worked because we had returned to the scene of my original death all the millennium ago (because I had only become the avatar when I was shot in the exact same way back then). He learned this from the rest of the party because I had to pretend I was already dead when he found me. The boy and his soul-mate left to mourn, leaving my body to be dealt with by the gruff man who had been helping us since I had located the girl. With my dying breaths I explained to the man all the stuff that the boy had just learned (apparently my dreams have timing issues) and explained that the boy could not see me die (or something bad would happen). At which point I died for real. I watched the rest of my dream in third-person, as my body was abandoned in the poorly lit subway tunnel and everyone walked away to return to their rightful universe.

What was in my Wall-E birthday cake I had yesterday?

It is 82* in my office. It has been around 80* in it all day.

Even with the window open (which means I can hear the dulled music coming from frat row).

Not fun.