The longer I listen to music on my computer, the longer I find myself turning the volume down and down. Winamp is at 19% volume and my master volume is at a comparable percentage. I bet my dad can't even hear this.

ALSO! My new camera arrived in the mail. Haven't had a chance to start playing with it.

And still looking for a job. Ugh. I just started to get calls about applications/letters I sent out about a month ago. People really aren't hiring right now, are they?

Edit: Also, there is an asdf.com. Similar to fearthedonut.com, but less obscure. I know of both simply because I randomly typed them into the address bar.

... Yeaaaaah, you read that right. I actually typed fearthedonut.com into the address bar many years back and laughed and laughed when I actually got a website. I was bored, in my defense.

Current Mood: weird

IF YOU READ THE SLEEPYFANS TRANSLATION OF THE CHAPTER:

ON PAGE 16, SASUKE DID NOT SAY KAGES. HE SAID HOKAGE.

CAN THEY EVEN READ FUCKING RIGHT? IT SAYS HOKAGE. HOKAGE. AS IN THERE IS A "HO" KANJI BEFORE THE "KAGE" KANJI.

WTF SLEEPYFANS. THAT IS A BEGINNERS' MISTAKE. COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT SASUKE WAS SAYING!

:| Tried to avoid spoilers. Can't say the same for the comments.

Tags: mistranslation, naruto, sleepyfans sucks
Current Mood: annoyed

Happy birthday, mewchangeling!

Current Mood: happy

I can't take it anymore. I love my old camera, but these nice new shiny cameras actually have things like image stabilization. It takes great pictures--as long as I use flash or hold perfectly still, which I can't do with my ADHD!

So I'm looking for a new digital camera. One that can take nice close-up shots of things such as insects but is good at things like faces in somewhat dark restaurants! Probably looking to spend about $200, max.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Got a camera! It's the Canon PowerShot A2000 IS, and I got the combo for the case/4 GB SD card (free!), and then the 10% off coupon code EMCDC10. So $160 or so with shipping for everything. SWEET.

Current Mood: excited

Michael Jackson died.

Say what you will about him, but it's weird to have him gone.

Edit: Farrah Fawcett, too. Man...

Tags: celeb death, michael jackson

I'm finding myself unable to muster up the energy to apply for anymore jobs because I just don't have much to look forward to right now.

Not going to Otakon, don't hang out with people (and feel too guilty about not applying to jobs to call anyone up to hang out), and whenever I try to use my adderall, I fucking dehydrate.

Edit: It's not that I'm depressed. It's just that I'm so fucking bored that I can't move or think or do anything. No stimulation. :| I'm having an ADHD attack, practically, because of it.

Edit 2: And now I've been told that I have a Vitamin D deficiency (it's at 24, when the lowest healthy score is at 30, but it should be more around 50-70 or something?) Even though I take a supplement that has 100% and drink milk. But I no longer have a gall bladder, and I've been having problems absorbing food for a while now? Hmm... and according to this, a lot of my symptoms are also caused by Vitamin B deficiency.

:| Maybe I'm just deficient in vitamins in general. i'll have to get some supplements and see if it helps... Ugh.

Current Mood: crappy

Radioactive materials contaminating recycled metal products.

I really, really hope this isn't true....

Tags: oh god, radioactive, wtf
Current Mood: horrified

FUCK!

When did Binktopia start scanlating Naruto again?! WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME. :| I've been reading SleepyFans all this time when there was a better translation out?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!! AUUUUUUUUGH.

Uh. Welcome back, Binktopia. XD

Tags: binktopia, naruto, scanlations

*Reads Naruto 448*

... ... Goddamn, I love this kid so fucking much!

... So far, not a single job I can apply for. Great.

How am I supposed to have two years of experience of no one will hire college grads...?

Edit: Okay, finding some companies now. :| Thank goodness.

Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering with minors in Computer Science, Creative Writing (English), and Math!

BOOYA.

Tags: graduation, school, yay
Current Mood: excited

Turns out that I can still get my Computer Science minor. I got a D- in that one class I thought I was going to fail due to illness.

.... now if only I could the help my group needs in order to get our Wiki project finished in time! First we had to get a new hosting service, as our old host died, but then we couldn't because we weren't a student organization due to legal concerns because our college is copyrighted, then I had to get all the signatures to make us one again, then we had to sign up for hosting @ our university, then we found out that they only update the DNS server on Tuesdays/Thursdays, so we had to wait until Tuesday afternoon to start stuff... and now our wiki won't work because they haven't set the permissions so that it'll work. They claim we didn't tell them about the wiki, when we DID. They simply forgot, or the person we spoke with simply forgot to tell the right people.

So now our term project wiki is due tomorrow and we still can't upload the last of the files. FUCK.

:| And if we don't get it working? I probably don't graduate. Fuck.

But yes, this is why I've been absent. I've been dealing with all this shit, including getting our old files off the list serv. My professor and I have been doing all this work last minute to try to get this working, and I'm not getting much support from my group regarding it.

Oh. And the design team this is for, which I'm on, hasn't given us ANY MORE of their files for this year. Even though the team leader requested those files sometime last week. We're a multi-year project. Are they seriously trying to fuck the next team over as much as we were?

ARGH WHY ARE THEY MAKING THIS SO DIFFICULT.

Edit: Okay, they've made the changes to the folders so that we can add users to permissions for writing. ........ Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get the wiki working from that. Hope that my group members will actually respond.....

Tags: argh, fuck, school
Current Mood: aggravated

News Corp. thinks that people will pay for their website content.

They're so naive about how the internet works that I'm trying not to die laughing. So much for News Corp., I think. People will pay for a physical copy or for convenience such as the iPhone App. However, asking a person to log in is not convenient and goes against many people's desires to remain anonymous on the internet. People will just use bugmenot or read other sources of news. Especially the younger college crowd that typically has little money to spare on newspaper subscriptions.

They might survive, if it isn't too expensive. Otherwise... nope.

... okay, back to dying from graduation/exams stuff.

Current Mood: amused

Note to Magus the Betta Fish: flaring at me first thing every morning when I get up will not change the fact that you sleep next to me all night every night.

Really, now.

Current Mood: amused

Introducing the Boston Terrier Sausage, (very appropriately) named Luna! Despite the situation, she's still more concerned about what the "lead dog" will think about what's she's done, avoiding his eyes. They're such loyal little guys. =)

Tags: boston terriers, funny, lulz, youtube
Current Mood: amused

*Claws at* *Whines at*

:< Fresh Tatami smells so goooood, and it's so green and pretty. My Japanese teacher brought some Tatami postcards into class and. :<<<< I just want some Tatami to smell. Like my beeswax candle type of thing. >_> Although the first link is like what our teacher brought in class, I still wish the pictures were smaller. The little flower pictures are cute!

Also, Numi is now selling Puerh teas. o___o $10 for 16 bags. Holy crap. I knew that stuff was expensive, but....

[/random journal post]

Tags: tatami, tea, wants

DON'T FORGET, it's Free Cone Day at Ben and Jerry's! Make sure that your store is participating here.

:< Mine isn't. Probably had to do something with having 20,000+ students show up one time or something....

While THIS goes on, I get this ad on Amazon.com:



That is the definition of FAIL.

Tags: amazon is idiotic, amazon super fail, amazon's pr migraine, amazonfail
Current Mood: irritated

Declaring a hiatus from LJ for the next month. I gotta work on finishing my one incomplete from the previous semester that now have A) time to work on it and B) am actually healthy enough to get a lot of work done.

So I won't be able to read up on my flist for the next month or so. Just FYI.

LOVE YOU ALL. ♥

In response to this, especially the last paragraph:

If your main/only reason for voting against same-sex marriage is religious beliefs--specifically that marriage is between a man and a woman--you are, in fact, violating the first Amendment to the Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Religion should have nothing to do with a Civil marriage. If you don't want a same-sex couple marrying in your church, fine. Couples can take their money elsewhere.

Tags: idiots, same sex marriage, separation of church and state
Current Mood: irritated