Relative Dimension

1. I made a profile and posted my resume to Monster.com, so hopefully that will help me get a job. I really want to be able to afford going back to school this fall.

2. I may get my book today, yay!

3. I have a new haircut which rocks.

4. I made coffee by myself and it's pretty damn good.

OMG I have Okk hair.

My ReBoot DVDs are, apparently, out of print and rare enough to be worth well over a hundred dollars each on Amazon. And that's the starting price. One goes up to $300 (!). Never buy anything out of print from Amazon. You'll most likely find it cheaper someplace else. I bought each of those DVDs at Suncoast for $15 a couple of years back. There is, by the way, no way in HELL I'm selling them. I'm on a serious ReBoot rebound right now, which will change in a few days -- hopefully only temporarily, so I can get back to work on the fic I've wanted to do for like, five years.

OMG BY THE WAY I tried to read the ReBoot fics I wrote in 2002, when I first started writing fanfic EVER and DEAR GOD it was traumatic. I've wanted for ages to rewrite them, but if I can't bring myself to read them that might be a problem. I may have to start from scratch and my sketchy memories.

Production has stalled on my Doctor Who scarf. Instead I've been giving myself eyestrain staring at computer screens all day, which means that if I can't get rid of it by Saturday, I'm going to have to read Deathly Hallows with a microscope.

Harry's going to live, dammit. I can believe that for another three days, at least.

OMG Stargate is tomorrow!!! I've been such a good girl to wait six freaking months and not watch it online ages go but I wanted to have something to look FORWARD to every week of this godawful work-heavy term, and watching it on the bigscreen downstairs (crossing fingers) is just going to make it that much more exciting. I'll probably dream about it all tonight (that's assuming I sleep at all). Last night I was dreaming about Doctor Who for some reason, but then my alarm went off and ruined the whole thing, and I think stuff was just getting exciting. Note to self: dreams while on Advil PM are some damn good ones. And I went off-topic, surprise. While catching Jessica up we had to skip most of season 8 and half of 9 and 10 and we'll just barely make it in time. She's seen all the stuff she absolutely needs to know for tomorrow, and we can see the rest later. But it sucks that we had to skip over some of the really good ones like Reckoning and Moebius, even if only temporarily.

In other news: I'm wanting to dye my hair brown again because I miss it. Since there's not a big market for ash brown, I'll probably have to go with something darker, but at least my roots will blend in better when they happen.

Here's what happened: a newbie director took a 500 page book and compressed it into an hour and forty-five minute movie and COMPLETELY RUINED ERAGON. I was not pleased. However, I was sort of expecting it. At this point it's doubtful they'll make Eldest, which I liked better, unless they get somebody new and WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING!!!

It's exactly what I'm always afraid will happen to one of the Harry Potters; they'll cut too much out and ruin the story. But so far they've all had good directors, and none of them has been under two hours, even the first, which was less than half the size of Eragon.

One thing I did like: the influence of Native American, Middle Eastern, and African styles in costuming. It was something I haven't seen often and it, at least, was well-done. And the boys were wearing leather, which did please me. Jeremy Irons was very good, too, for the half he was in. What confused me the most was why he was narrating the opening of the movie (which was just weird) when his character kicked the bucket an hour in.

Also the movie was started ten minutes late, the previews were skipped completely, it was in the wrong lens to start out with, and it went out of frame twice.

Anyway, I went and rented some movies (two seasons of CSI because I'm in that zone again, Chronicles of Narnia, Superman, and X2 because I think there might be something I like in the deleted scenes) and got some awesome shampoo that makes my hair feel AMAZING and a new facial wash because the other one wasn't working for crap. And an energy drink, which is still in my system after six hours. I'm going to be up all bloody night.

Oh yeah, last night: windy as hell. The power died for a few hours so I did some writing-related stuff by candellight because there was nothing else to do. Once, when this happened, we played board games by candles. Anyway, I kind of like writing by candles except my heater wasn't working (the heat is electric) and I was freaking freezing. Water started coming in through my smoke detector (which always happens in weather like that).

I'm getting into that tri-yearly drawing mood, right on schedule.

Maybe I'll read Eragon again so I don't feel so cheated.

Yay, I have a story to write! It may be kind of a cliche, but it's at least practice. Here's how it is: Boy meets dragon. Boy befriends dragon. Somebody dies horribly and villagers blame dragon and boy. Villagers try to burn boy, dragon saves boy. Boy later defends dragon when knights come. Boy and/or dragon may or may not die. I haven't decided yet. Hell, I only first thought of this an hour ago. I'm quite sure something very similar has been done before, but I'm going to do it because I feel like it. This kind of thing always happens with a girl anyway. I'll decide whether or not it's worth trying to publish if and when I finish writing it.

I went to the coast today and walked up and down the beach for about an hour. The weather was perfect: sunny but not too warm, and very little wind. And the beach wasn't crowded, and on the dive there I nearly had the road all to myself. Then I headed home. 

Or so I thought.

Apparently, you're supposed to take the exit that says Portland/Salem. Whoops.

By the time I figured out I was on the wrong highway, I was halfway to Tillamook. And what a beautiful drive it was. I'll have to go that way next summer when I'm intending to. I stopped in Pacific City after I turned around because I've heard about decent surfing there and I wanted to see the waves. Couldn't find the beach.

Anyway, it was a very nice trip (and my first time driving to the beach alone!). I must do that again next year. More than once if possible.

About my hair: I went to Sally's yesterday to look at hair dyes. First of all, I can't decide what color I really want to do (choices are pink, black, or blue). Also, it looks like an awful lot of work. And if I want anything but black, it's twice as much work because I have to bleach first. I'm too laaaazy. So I got a bottle of spray-on highlighter so I could streak my hair instead. Unfortunately, it's intended for hair of a lighter color than mine and instead of blonde highlights, they're sort of red. But that's okay too. I bought the stuff, I'm going to use it. Dammit.

I got more hair stuff today. I swear I must have half the Beyond the Zone collection at this time. I thought I'd try Air Wax and Hair Cement. I want to color my hair, but I think I'll probably need to ask for help with that.

Two of the books I ordered two weeks ago are STILL not here. I've had overseas orders that shipped faster. I am not joking. In fact, I don't think I've EVER had an order that took this long to arrive. I live on the west coast, for chrissakes, not the south pole. It shouldn't take two weeks to ship from North Carolina, even if it is media mail. I went back to Amazon and read that seller's customer feedback, and while most of it was positive, there seemed to be a lot of cases where people didn't get their stuff at all. I hope I don't have to get those again, and if I do, I'd better get my money back for this order. At the very least I'm never buying from them again, and I'm not rating them any higher than a 3 (and that only if I ever get my damn books). I'm this close to e-mailing the guy.

Sam's leaving tonight and won't be back till Christmas at the earliest. And he's taking all the stinking guitars with him. Damn his hide. Maybe my roommate will be a Japanese punk girl and play bass or something.