I finally got my internet back today! \o/ I had so much Farmville shit to take care of, it was ridiculous.

Anyway, I like doing year end lists, so here are my top 10 albums of the year.
10. Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
Like all of Cobra's albums, there are hits and misses, but the hits are pretty great, as far as Cobra goes. Also, "Good Girls Go Bad" really introduced me to Leighton Meester and well, I have to be grateful for that.

9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Everything the Yeah Yeah Yeahs make is awesome, especially "Heads Will Roll" and ESPECIALLY the video for it.

8. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
I knew this album wasn't going to be as epic as American Idiot, nothing they make ever will be, let's be honest, but this is still a really good album. It took me a few listens to really pick out some favorite songs and get in the groove of it, but "21 Guns" is a great Green Day ballad and "East Jesus Nowhere" is just great.

7. Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Like Hot Mess, this one is pretty hit or miss, but the hits? Are some of my favorite TBS songs ever. "Sink Into Me" and "Carpathia" are so. fucking. good. that it totally makes up for the songs that I can't even remember their names.

6. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
I'm new on the Avett Brothers wagon, mostly because everyone I know from high school LOVES them (they're from NC, afterall) and I don't always trust these people's taste. But this album is a really good (alt?)country-rock-whatever-genre-they-are album and "January Wedding" is so sweet and wonderful.

5. Whip It Soundtrack
Whip It was a fucking awesome movie and the soundtrack is fucking awesome, too. Lots of artists I've never heard of but every song is great and it's just a super fun album to listen to.

4. Rihanna - Rated R
I love that Rihanna has not only won the public battle with Chris Brown morally, but also musically. This album is hard and lightyears away from "Pon De Replay" and it rocks. I love that Rihanna can do her badass videos like "Russian Roulette" and still have all the success she deserves. Also I love that "Te Amo" is about her maybe having an affair with a lady friend.

3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
Any album that gives me Rihanna in the "Run This Town" video deserves to be on every top 10 list. Also "DOA" and "Empire State of Mind" are monsterly good singles. It's not #1 for me, though, because I still can't handle Jimmy Brooks being a legit GRAMMY-NOMINATED rapper on the best rapper in the game's album.

2. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
I have no idea why MTV played her video for "Daniel" a lot during the summer, but I'm glad they did. Bat for Lashes is a) a great stage name and b) haunting and kind of weird and all-around beautiful. "Sleep Alone" is my favorite track.

1. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
I know, I know, it's only an EP but The Fame came out in 2008 and Lady Gaga really just needs to be #1 for me. Besides, while I love The Fame, I love the songs on The Fame Monster more for some reason. Maybe it's "Bad Romance" and its epic video of epic ridiculousness and Alexander McQueen clothes or maybe it's "Telephone", the song with Beyonce or maybe it's "Speechless" which is beautiful or "Monster" which is mindfuckingly awesome with its insanity. Whatever it is, Lady Gaga wins.

For anyone who doesn't keep up with weather in the eastern US (or who is not on my twitter) I am currently surrounded by 14 inches of snow. My graduation was canceled, we had no power for about 15 hours and we still don't have internet. I've been able to somewhat keep up because I thankfully have internet on my phone but it still really sucks. happy_coconut was lovely enough to keep my farmville plants from dying though. (I have great priorities ok?)

I hope anyone else with bad weather is doing ok. ♥

nicholasscimeca @tomconrad Remember when you used to protest fur out front of Neiman Marcus & then years later you fell in love w/ corndogs on warped tour?

Nick Scimeca, I knew there was a reason I loved you so much. Seriously, picturing bb!Tomrad with his bad hair and HUGE baggy jeans and black fingernail polish out in front of Neiman Marcus yelling at people for wearing fur is seriously the best thing I've ever thought about it in my entire life.

Also in bandomy stuff, Greta's album comes out at midnight! I'm pretty excited. Almost as excited as I was when she sent me a Facebook message about it through her Gold Motel facebook fan page. Bandom is so weird.

Being home has been stupidly busy and it's going to be even busier. My cousin, uncle and grandmother (it's an odd combo because my aunt can't get off work, my other cousin is still in school and my grandpa is basically blind and is worried about being somewhere he's unfamiliar with) are driving in tomorrow, weather permitting, and graduation is on Saturday, and because my mother cannot fathom of not having a party, we're having one afterwards. I've been to grocery stores 3 times in the past day, the post office and FedEx and I still have to make food tonight. When I never have a party of my own when I live by myself, memories of shit like this will be why.

We're supposed to get between 4 and 10 inches of snow tonight and in the morning, so that made the grocery store extra fun tonight. Who knows how much we'll actually get. It's a long-standing joke around here that the guy who owns our big grocery chain had an in with the main weather guy, because anytime the weather guy said we were going to have snow, everyone and their damn grandmother would buy every fucking thing in the grocery store, and then we'd have like, a few flurries and that was it. This is such a long-standing joke that the weather guy and the grocery store owner did a commercial making fun of this. Oh North Carolina.

I wasn't able to find a job this week, but I was able to get a volunteer/intern position to help fix/redesign this local art council's website. Well, it's not official, but the lady I emailed with was really excited that someone was interested, even if it's for no money, so I think I've got it. I figure I need the experience more than anything, so I figure it's worth it, even if there's no money out of it.

Anyway, I realized I hadn't offered any holiday cards or presents or anything even though I meant to, so a) if you want a $10 coupon for a paid account, let me know! and b) have a poll:
Poll #1500444 I'm late on the holidays, as usual
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

I'd like the following from you for the holidays

What kind of fic/icons/graphics/picspam?

I can't promise when anything will be done, but I will promise that it will be! :D?

I posted some Lady Gaga stuff tonight. She is so fantastic and hot.

Since I now have satellite television at my disposal, I was able to watch the Dexter finale live tonight. ( Major spoilers for tonight's episode )

Anyway, I'm stealing this tv meme from candidlily too.

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Gossip Girl
2. Dexter
3. Community
4. Mad Men
5. Criminal Minds

( under the cut )

In case you missed it. I can't even handle how adorable and unexpected this picture is. Biiiiill, you and your family are so gorgeous.

I am officially moved out of college. It's really weird. I've lived in a dorm for the better part of 4 1/2 years, so to be back home permanently (at least, until I get a job and can afford to move out) is really weird. Mostly because being at home as its pros (cats! no waiting on the bathroom) and cons (the daily drama that is this house) and every time I've been back here since I was 18, I've known at some set date, I was leaving again. It also means I have to unpack EVERYTHING and I am not looking forward to that one tiny bit.

I felt like I had more to say but I guess not. Except that Community was fucking hilarious this week. And that I'm exhausted. And I'm getting wasted tonight.

So I didn't catch the first 45 minutes because I didn't even know it was happening, but Bill (and Sisky by phone) were on this FBR ustream and they are my FAVORITES. ( Cut cause I'm rambly like Bill Beckett )

Also, small thing, I'm done with college! FOREVER. Unless I go back to grad school in a few years, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. It's weird, right? Now I have to be an adult and get a JOB. D: But first things first. I have to move out of my dorm room tomorrow, hang out with people all weekend (you think I'm not getting plastered on Friday night you are sorely mistaken) and then deal with graduation stuff next weekend. And then Christmas! And then New Year's! And then my birthday! After all that, I deal with being an adult, promise.

I am going slightly delusional (I'm currently lip-syncing very enthusiastically to "Mr. Roboto" right now, for instance) with lack of sleep but I have to stay awake so I'm updating my journal to keep me going while I take a study/writing break. I'm going to take a shower after this to wake myself up more, but I figure I should wait until like 6:30, so if I wake my suitemates up, it won't be ungodly early. This makes sense in my head.

My OTP continues to make really happy. Jon posted a link to Empires site today on Twitter AND he finally started following Tom! This is small, yes, but come on, I haven't gotten this much Jon/Tom canon in like, two years, I'm soaking it up.

Oh God, I'm so tired, I took a Sporcle quiz about famous bears and one of the things was "famous ride at Disney World" and I tried to answer "Jungle Bear Jamboree" when the answer is Country Bear Jamboree. A Jungle Bear Jamboree would be really fucking sweet, though.

This paper I'm writing is about the record industry being douchebags and how the internet has changed everything for musicians and shit and I'm this close to quoting Empires/Tom about how they're doing everything on their own because it makes them stronger and all that other earnest shit about sharing music that Tom loves to say. That'd be totally ridiculous and insane and I'm trying not to, but this paper is due in 8 hours and I have a final in 3 (ihu geology. ihu so much), so it really just might have to happen. It only has to be 5 pages though and I have 3, but it was originally supposed to be 10, so I dunno what my professor really wants. But HEY. This is the last time I ever have to wonder that because 10 hours from now? I WILL BE DONE WITH COLLEGE. WEIRD, RIGHT? Also terrifying, but I'll just go with weird for now.

Speaking of weird! I watched that Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory show this morning. LOL WOW is basically my reaction. I love a good conspiracy theory and I think there are some truths to some of them but this is just fucking hilarious. HE HAS A WAR ROOM GUYS. He has a war room where his team presents him with the evidence and they all call him Governor 100% of the time. Like, I get that that's a courtesy thing, like why we still call former presidents President Carter or Clinton or whatever, but because it's Jesse Ventura it just seems hilarious. Anyway he was investigating the HAARP thingy up in Alaska and when they went there and tried to get in, the dude was all "It's just a research place but you can't come in." and Jesse, with his bald head and ponytail, was all "I AM A NAVY SEAL AND I KNOW THE NAVY DOES NOT KEEP SECRETS FROM NAVY SEALS UNLESS IT IS MORE THAN JUST RESEARCH. ALSO I GET ANGRY WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO INTIMIDATE ME LIKE THIS. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY. AND DID I MENTION I AM A NAVY SEAL?" (ok it's possible I'm embellishing here but you get the picture.) Basically this is the most amazing television show I have ever seen. BUT I have not seen Steven Seagal: LAWMAN yet, so this is subject to change.

Oh man the main article I'm using for this paper just referenced Ian MacKaye of Fugazi. MARRY ME ARTICLE. In case you were unaware, I love Fugazi more than any person should. I still need to make a shirt that says something like "This is not a Fugazi shirt."

And oh dude, I'm so pissed at the puzzle game I linked to the other day. I got to level 88 (and I wonder why I have to pull all nighters) and I completed the puzzles and whatever AND IT WON'T LET ME PASS. I've done it like 7 times and even completed the puzzle in different ways and it still won't accept it. I have never been so angry at a puzzle in my whole life.

I should probably be wrapping this up now because I'm realizing I'm sounding crazier by the minute, so to end, have the greatest picture I have ever seen (right-click->view for bigger, I resized with html)

Thanks to everyone who has sent me snowflake cookies! It's like a tiny cookie blizzard on my userinfo page. :D

( Gossip Girl spoilers for tonight's episode, which is the last new one until MARCH >:( )

Empires has been completely adorable on the radio the past few days. Also in this video interview (watch Tom talk with his hands and Sean be distracting with his bottle tapping, it's hilarious) "Bang" is set to come out at 1am my time and I'm pretty excited to put on repeat as I finish up my stuff for finals. &Empires;

And even though CuteOverload lost all my respect by not posting my kitten to their site, I submitted her to FuckYeahBabyAnimals on Tumblr and over 60 people like her! These people obviously have good taste. Although now I wish I had said she was not named after Twilight!Bella, because DNW that association, even though we also have a cat named Eddie. This is a coincidence, I swear.

Thank you to the two anonymous people who bought my LJ gifts! (and to the person who bought my graphics journal one too) The Tomrad-personalized gift kinda made my entire night. :D

There's been a lot going on and lists are the best way for me to formulate any thoughts, so lists!

Fandomy stuff:
-Jon and Tom and their girlfriends are on another double date tonight. :DDDDDD
-Vicky-T and MGG are totally dating. Tonight she updated her twitter talking about how glad she is that MGG's tent isn't boys only (for those that do not enjoy the ridiculousness that is Matthew Gray Gubler, he makes a Christmas tent to sleep in during the holidays). She also posted a picture of a ferris wheel and thanked him for a magical night in LA. There was also an update of her talking about how she liked boys with dark circles under their eyes (there's an entire segment of one of the Criminal Minds DVDs making fun of MGG for his dark undereye circles) but she deleted it. She also deleted one from earlier today but I was able to save that one:
Yes @JeffreeStar that's generally the case. I only know of one gorgeous guy from Vegas, he's now in LA though ... Good luck finding one!

Yes, the Panic boys are from Vegas, but let's be honest, she's totally talking about Goobler Boobler. And that's kind of fucking hilarious and awesome and adorable.
-Sisky is obviously bored. He's been updating talking about giving Chicago kids bass lessons (can you even imagine?) and getting a job for the hiatus and how he'd never leave TAI because they're his flesh and blood (&Sisky;) and tweeting to Jon Walker about going sledding and having dreams about Shaq. Sisky-Biz, I love you so much.
-Switching fandoms, but Blake Lively hosted SNL tonight! I thought she did really well, actually. The skits were not amazing, and they really didn't give her a whole lot to work with, but she did way better than I expected her too. She was also generally adorable. And Rihanna was great, too. Her digital short was probably the funniest segment of the whole show.

Life stuff:
-I've been living in the multimedia computer labs the past two days. I am 98% finished my website that is due Tuesday, I just have to fix some link color issues that I was just not in the mood to do tonight (also I didn't want to miss Blake on SNL). The other things I have are a stupid geology test and 5-10 page research paper due next Wednesday. Oh I have to touch up a letterhead for Monday. For my last week of finals, that's not too bad. I'm actually more stressed about getting all of my shit out of my dorm this week than anything else.
-I really do not believe that I'm graduating. It really weirds me out and I'm not sure it has hit me yet. It's incredibly surreal.

Internet stuff:
-I have completely switched over to Google Chrome. Firefox has just been a piece of shit ever since I upgraded up it (and it was being shitty before, too) and there are only a couple of add-ons that I really miss, so it's a pretty even trade. Chrome seems to be adding extensions all the time, too, so it shouldn't be long before more of the ones I used in FF catch up.
-I have gotten myself addicted to yet another horrible puzzle game. :( This one is actually hard and I sometimes have to restart the level to actually beat it. I love stupid flash games way more than anyone should.

SORRY BUT I HAVE TO TWITTER SPAM THIS POST:

siskybusiness Playing with my cat... Catching up on tv shows... Burps smell like lobster ravioli... I bet my dead dad could beat up your dad. Just sayin

siskybusiness Bill=Leonardo Chiz=Donatello Butch=Raphael Me=Michaelangelo Carden= Shredder Tony=Splinter

siskybusiness @petewentz do you remember when your wife asked if The Butcher and I were dating and she was dead serious? Hahah I guess I can kinda see it

siskybusiness Note to self: No matter how bad life gets, there is always Beer

siskybusiness Note to self: Making love to inflatable blowup doll, Not as good as advertised

petewentz @siskybusiness it was mostly haircut v neck shirt based and u guys looked kinda euro. I think she still thinks it.

siskybusiness @petewentz true, coulda also been the fact that he was giving me a rim job at the time.....................................

siskybusiness I may have gone too far on that last one. But let's not get sensitive this evening..

I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH ADAM T. SISKA. I LOVE YOU PLAYING WITH YOUR CAT AND REFERENCING YOUR SAD DAD STUFF AND THEN RECASTING YOUR BAND AS THE NINJA TURTLES (SUCH PERFECT CASTING TOO) AND NOT BEING SURPRISED THAT &ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ; THINKS YOU AND BUTCHER ARE DATING. I LOVE THAT YOU MAKE HILARIOUSLY BAD JOKES ABOUT BEER AND BLOW-UP DOLLS AND RIM JOBS AND I JUST. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

I had a shitty day besides my portfolio presentation going really well and this makes ruining my red Converse SO MUCH BETTER. And pretty appropriate because I had been planning on writing up a post being all tl;dr about Siska's emo-ish tweets and wanting to teach some kid how to play bass and whatnot but THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER. &SISKY FUCKING BIZ;

I redid my layout again. I really liked my last one but I hated that I couldn't have my custom friend page colors and I really just like dark layouts better. Also having a header that makes fun of Tomrad > pretty much everything.

Anyway, I never do these things but I decided one couldn't kill me:
【ANOTHER ANON MEME】

Driving through six states over just as many days without a working iPod-to-stereo converter or satellite radio forces you to play the old "find a radio station" game. My mom and I have fairly similar music tastes, but I like more rock and she likes more pop, so the best compromise we make when it comes to radio stations are top 40. So, for those that haven't listened to the radio for an extended period of time in awhile, here is the current musical landscape of America:

Taylor Swift
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus "Party in the USA" (which I have been Stockholm'd into liking)
American Idol contestants (Kris Allen, David Cook, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, David Archuleta, Jordin Sparks and hell, there were probably more)
Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" (remember how that came out over a year ago? Most of the country doesn't know)
Owl City's "Fireflies"
Taylor Swift
Jason Mraz' "I'm Yours"
GIVES YOU HELL
Black Eyed Peas
Taylor Swift
Old U2 (seriously heard "One" and "Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For" 7 times)
Justin Timberlake "Rock Your Body"
"Good Girls Go Bad"
Taylor Swift

After you add in a few songs here and there from Beyonce, Jay-Z and Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings" (and one Hey Monday song! :D), that's pretty much it. And in case you weren't aware, that Taylor Swift? KIND OF FUCKING EVERYWHERE. She even guest hosted for Ryan Seacrest on the top 40 show he does on Sundays (is it weird that I still refer to that as the Rick Dees show?). I seriously don't have anything against the girl but JESUS CHRIST I even heard that fucking nice girl song as I was parking my car at school tonight. Serious oversaturation.

Anyway, this week is going to be one of the worst of my scholarly career. I have to present my website and portfolio to the ENTIRE department on Wednesday, I have to finish a letterhead/business card project by tomorrow so it can be critiqued and added to the portfolio, I have to write a 10-page rough draft for a research paper by Friday, I have to start coding another website for Tuesday and I'm going to have a "surprise" Geology quiz sometime this week. I hate everything involving finals, especially when finals aren't even until next week. However, I am too braindead to really do anything tonight but not tired enough to fall asleep, so please do this meme with me? :D?

Give me a fandom and I'll tell you: (Can also be a TV show, book, movie, etc.)

Favorite character(s):
Favorite Pairing(s):
Least Favorite Character(s):
Least Favorite Pairing(s):
I pity/feel sorry for:
I'd be best friends with:
Go shopping with:
Karaoke with:
Who would I kill:
Who would I tango with:
Which 4 characters would I want to be stuck in a zombie apocalypse with:
Who would I sleep with:
Who would I kiss:
Who would I share an umbrella with:
Spend my last moments with:
Bake a cake for:
Take Over the World with:

Jon and Tom would post the most adorable and wonderful piece of canon since "separated at birth, believe it" while I was in the middle of nowhere with no internet, except what I could pull up on my phone. Oh Jon and Tom, you don't give me a lot of canon, but when you do, it's always really, really great. ♥

Also, Leighton makes Nate look tall. :DDDD

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Mine was fine, saw the family, have seemingly guilted them into coming to my graduation and we're now back at my mom's boyfriend's place, where I have wireless. I still don't know what's going on tomorrow, but since we have no plans, I may be able to talk to my mom about coming downtown? She doesn't want to go anywhere, but maybe she'll let me go by myself. :D?

Anyway, I read through my flist and I hate to miss a good bandwagon, so here's that about me meme that was going around. ( I didn't save the instructions but you get the idea )

vickytcobra @itsmeleighton and I ... Were we making out Leighton?

Why there is not four million words of porny fic about them is a fucking TRAVESTY. (This would be an acceptable alternative)

And lol creepy but Danielle unlocked her twitter. Her and Tom have such a lolzy and adorable relationship that it makes me smile. She posted a picture of him performing and labeled it "Fat baby" and I can't stop loling at it. ♥

Anyway, I'm at my mom's boyfriends in the suburbs of Chicago. The drive wasn't too bad, except for some rain and road work. Also all the radio stations from Kentucky to here had great music. I heard "Alpha Dog," "Good Girls Go Bad," "Hot Mess," "I Write Sins," and Lady Gaga about 6 times, including one station that played "Bad Romance" and "Paparazzi" 20 minutes apart AND a "Bad Romance/Hot Mess" mashup. I want to marry it.

Tomorrow we're going to my grandparents and they have what has to be the slowest internet on earth. (22 kb/s on a good day) and cell phone service is iffy, so if I'm not around much until Friday, that's why. I just hope my Farmville animals will be okay.

While I'm waiting for the big "surprise" from Empires (they're having technical issues. Is anyone even remotely surprised?) I decided to update with my Thanksgiving plans.

Tomorrow I will get done with class at 12:10. Then I will drive home and jump in the car with my mom. From there we will drive to her boyfriend's house, on the outskirts of Chicago. With the delay from the rock slide we had last month, it will take approximately 11 hours. Since I just got my license in August, I've never driven more than an hour at once, so I'm kinda freaking out about that. My mom's not going to make me drive in Tennessee, which is a fucking hellhole and a half to drive through, at least, but I'm still pretty nervous about the parts I will have to drive. Anyway, we will get to his place at 11 or 12, spend the night, wake up and leave to go to my grandparents at 9 or 10 in the morning, 4 hours away. (I don't know how this is possible from a geography standpoint, but my mom says its somehow only 4 hours) We'll stay there until Friday or Saturday morning and then we will drive back to her boyfriend's place. Now here is where it gets...IDK. Originally we planned to stay in Chicago Saturday night (we did this last year) but we can't find a hotel room for less than $470, so we're just going to stay at her boyfriend's instead. And since the whole reason we were going to stay downtown is do shopping and he lives 10 minutes away from what has to be the world's biggest outlet mall, mom's talking about not going downtown at all and IDK what to do about it because I would love to meet people but my mom being around would make it really incredibly awkward and she kinda judges me for having internet friends anyway (even though she met her boyfriend online but whatever) and I'm just not sure what's going to happen. :/ I hate complicated situations.

But anyway, Empires got their shit up! :DDDDDD My favorite part of the little video isn't the announcement of the new song/album/whatever but that little part around 15 seconds in when the music stops and Tom's just standing in front of a door with Ryan with his stupid sunglasses in his hair. And the song sounds good and whoever edited that video did a really good job, too. A++++ empires!

So last night I basically finished my portfolio site. I say basically because I still have 2 more pages to add to the portfolio section for pieces that aren't done yet and I have no artist's statement on the front page. I also realize that on a smaller resolution, you have to scroll down to get to the menu but fixing that right now might require me to redo the entire site so fuck it. (Also please ignore my phone number. lol pulled a Tomrad)

Because I was so productive yesterday, I spent all day in my bed. I watched part of Oxygen's weekly Snapped marathon and scoured through tumblrs and photo galleries for pictures of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester. I also watched the AMAs. Spoiler: they were a crapshoot, besides Lady Gaga.

Anyway, I decided to pic spam the pictures I downloaded because well, why not?
( Everyone always needs more pretty girl pictures )

Also someone should talk to me about fucking great Dexter is this season. That new episode tonight was fucking CRAZY. I'm still reeling from it.

I stayed up entirely too late watching a movie again. Tonight it was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I'd seen parts of it when I was younger (like 11) but it'd been so long it barely even counts. The main things I took away from this movie were as follows:
-No men have ever been as attractive as Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Marlon Brando is close, though.
-I haven't shipped a threesome so much since Han/Leia/Luke. I might even ship Butch/Sundance/Etta more. I mean, seriously, am I supposed to come away from this movie thinking any differently?

This time of year all I want to do is watch movies. I think part of it is that the "Oscar" (I don't know what else you'd call them) movies start gaining buzz, so I start getting really excited about movies again, and the other part is that it's cold and dark out and I just want to curl up with a good flick. And since most of the Oscar movies aren't out yet, I'm going through my text file of movies to see. Next up: The Great Escape and The Outsiders.

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Firefox has been a piece of shit for me lately, so I downloaded Google Chrome. I really adore it and I would use it exclusively if Firefox didn't own me with its add-ons. I especially love how when you open a new tab, it gives you little screenshots of all the sites you've been to recently. And the themes are so much nicer, too. Also this "Inspect Element" feature kicks ass for web design shit.

And speaking of web design shit, guess what I get to do tomorrow? I get to drag myself up to the Multimedia labs and finish my portfolio website! Why I let my professor talk me into doing this piece of shit with Photoshop slices I will never know. And I have to go to the labs because a) I work better in there and b) I actually need our dual-screens because of the sheer amount of windows you need open to work on a website.

Wow, 6am. I should go to bed, now.

( TV rundown for the week. Spoilers for Gossip Girl, Criminal Minds, Survivor and SPN )

Also, Farmville is point-blank refusing to work for me and it's kind of really distressing. :( This is all I see when I open it up in all of my browsers. I've updated my Flash player like 4 times (and even tried an older version), restarted my computer and everything. It's so frustrating. >:( I have crops to harvest and gifts to send and cows to milk, dammit! I sent off a support request awhile ago but I haven't gotten anything back, yet.

But today wasn't all frustrating. William was adorable about being a dad in this short article and I watched Inglorious Basterds at 4 in the morning, which I really, really loved.

I was tagged in a meme by sweetnovicane ( Everything under the cut )

I really want to thank everyone who voted in my poll and answered my questions in my last post. It was super-duper helpful. ♥

Anyway this Bang shit Empires is being weird and cryptic about is not getting any less hilarious. Today Ryan updated his twitter with "NA" and "BG" and then "NSMH!" which are all letters next to B, A, N and G. You know he thought that was fucking clever as hell.

My mom had me get together my Amazon wishlist and it's kind of ridiculous. Like, I have to get it together for Christmas, my birthday and graduation. Why does it all come at once? I didn't have a whole lot on there besides video games and movies so I went and added one of Tom's prints and some stuff from ThinkGeek. I also went to look at FBR's stuff, just to see if there was anything decent and what in the world is this shirt TAI? I know you have pretty terrible merch in general, but that is just wretched. Also apparently FBR is calling men's tanktops "manks" now. I don't think I approve.

And oh God Cobra Starship WHAT IS THIS? I love a lot of really tacky shit, I do (for instance I would wear this shirt.) but good God that is just awful.

ETA LOLOL Empires has the same font as Phantom Planet.

So, if I was hypothetically writing a story that was based around a hospital, where the characters were employees and one was a patient, how important would it be for this totally hypothetical story to be realistic to the actual medical profession?

Poll #1486618 Totally hypothetic poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

How important is realism in a hospital AU?

Do you know anything about the medical profession/hospitals?

Have you ever broken your leg?

Where did my Farmville turkey go?

Basically, I need a little help for this totally hypothetical story. I have the story all planned out but since pretty much everything I know about hospitals comes from either ER or when my dad was in and out of them 8 years ago, I'd need some help there. Also with the injury part. I've never broken a bone and no one close to me has, so IDK anything about what that feels like. So any help would be really, really awesome.

Anyway, I started playing Farmville tonight and it is confusing the shit out of me. It told me a sad little turkey found its way onto my farm and I accepted because, well, who wouldn't? But now the turkey is NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. I want my turkey. >:(