B.D.

12:03 pm: Poem
( A Moment in the Leaves )

11:44 pm: Yuletide 2008
The other short fic written for Yuletide.

Fandom: Chrono Trigger(Video game)
(Yes, there's kind of a theme there)

( Six Simple Rules For Marrying My Royal Daughter )

Tags: fanfiction

11:36 pm: Yuletide 2008
One of the two treats I wrote for Yuletide. Again, thanks to dragojustine for beta and general encouragement.

Fandom: Chrono Trigger (Video Game)

( In The Nick Of Time )

Tags: fanfiction

11:29 pm: Yuletide 2008
This was my first year doing a fic exchange. I blame dragojustine, who also provided editorial services, including fixing things broken by my comma-splice addiction.

Fandom: Birds of Prey (TV)
( Impostor )

Tags: fanfiction

12:18 am: Bored. Writing dirty stories.
dragojustine has been a bad influence on me.

My first attempt at Firefly porn.
Kaylee/Simon
Wordcount: 1650
( Kaylee's Plan )

Tags: fanfiction, firefly

01:43 am: Yuletide Madness... appropriately named
Totally worth staying up late for.

( I'm about to go all fanboy up in this piece )

Tags: fic

01:08 pm: Gah
Yuletide uploading is broken? The internets are conspiring against me today.

Best poetry stumble I've gotten in weeks: Kite by Rives. I loved the tone of this, silly/sweet but still full of emotion.

( Not new, but not posted here yet )

And something I wrote last month on election night, but never went back to polish, so it's pretty rough still.
( Election Night )

Tags: poems

10:27 pm: Does this thing still work?
Oh man. I don't remember how to use my livejournal.
Anyway, poem to post.

( No Title )

Tags: poems

07:48 pm: Bye-bye, everyone
Well, I'll be even more absent than usual for the next couple of months.  The family's moving, mom and sis are going to be living at mom's fiancées house, while I'm looking for a place of my own.  I'll be staying with them until I do, and there's no internet connection there at all right now, so there's a good chance I'm going to be offline until after the new year.

So until then, bye to everyone I haven't had a chance to say goodbye to, and I'll see you when I get back online.

-Curtis

09:49 pm: Life updates. Stuff like that.
I somehow managed to rip one of my earrings out last saturday.  The screen door chain was unhooked and I backed into it, not realizing I'd tangled it in my peircing.  I bumped something else, and when I moved to catch it, I turned and ripped my earring out the side of my ear. 

The antithesis of fun.

I'd been drinking, so it didn't hurt _too_ much, but it bled like crazy all over my shirt.  It's pretty gross right now, all scabbed over, so I've been taking a kind of perverse pleasure out of showing that to people.  Plus the ring in my cartiledge came out at the same time, but fortunately, that one merely came apart rather than ripping through.  That would have really sucked. 

Other news... I just did a rough count on the poetry transcription, and I've still got over 100 left before I get out of the high school section, and about the same amount of stuff between then and now.  My quantity started slowing down in late '97, fortunately.  These days I only really write when I'm feeling particularly inspired about something, and when I have a reasonably original idea.  The hardest part is momentum.  It was easy back in the day to pund out four or five during a 45 min study hall, because I was doing so much of it; now when I write maybe one or two a month, it's harder to get back into the rhythm.  I'll do a couple in a week all of a sudden, then run out of new ideas and not pick up my pen for three months, and then it's hard to get back into that mind-set.

But here's a poem for my fans.  Well, fan.  *waves*  You know who you are.

( When I'm With You )

10:57 pm: Busy busy busy
Well, I didn't quite manage to sleep for an entire month, I had to wake up yesterday to go to a wedding rehearsal, and, of course, a wedding today.

For those of you who might not know, I'm a minister of the Universal Life Church, or ULC. This was the biggest wedding I've perfomed so far, in terms of attendence and planning involved. It came off very well, and I think I did a pretty good job today. No cute single bridesmaids though. )-:

An aside, for some reason, today is the second time since my last entry that my LJ program hasn't wanted to connect. So I'm doing this the old fashioned way with the browser while the new release of semagic is downloading. I've been using Semagic for a while (though I don't update terribly often). Does anybody have recommendations for other programs?

09:54 pm: Happy belated birthday to me
I turned 24 on thursday. And I got a good present, my air force friend was back on leave so we went out like four or five times, and my aunt from georgia came up for the reunion but was here for my birthday, so yay! As my birthday was on karaoke night... we had a karaoke party with Harry Potter decorations all over the bar. Not my idea. I've been ridiculously busy with all the far-travelling visitor type people. I'm exhausted and could sleep for a month.

Mm... sleep.

02:31 am: Yay. Buy 2 get 1 free sales at game stores are good things. Xbox is my friend.

No customer stories today. Instead, I'm turning the tables. This is an Employee of the Day story.
Went to Sam's Club for ice cream on lunch.

"Can I have a rootbeer float?"

"We don't have that."

"Oh. Um... can I have an ice cream then, and a large soda, and just put the ice cream in the soda cup."

"You got it."

Guy takes the cup, puts ice cream in it. Next stop, soda fountain, but first, one must pay. Guy hits the button on his register ring it up. Anyone want to guess what button he hits? "Float."

*buries head in hands* It's the little things that let you know the world's going to hell.

Oh, and a side note: Went back today, asked for the same thing. No problem this time. And the guy was having a long day and they were jerking him around on his break on the "We don't have floats" day. That's in case he reads this. Don't worry guy. I work for the same company, all of us lose our minds sometimes. You're cool.

11:36 pm: Bored.
Bored bored bored.
Saturday night and I'm sitting at home because honestly I don't have enough energy after today to go and do anything interesting, even if I had something interesting planned for the evening.

Work sucked immensely. Our store manager's last day was yesterday, he's moving across town to help open the new store, so we get some guy in who was (I think) from the Orland store. And he comes in with all these great ideas, and all this drive, which is good in a way, but I know this store will beat it out of him before too long. I've checked, most stores actually run a lot better than ours, so it's not just that the company sucks. We just can't seem to get organized, or stay there on the rare occasions it's forced on us. We're operating at way higher traffic numbers than the place was designed for, for one. It's an older store, and when it was built, the town wasn't nearly as big. Or growing as fast. There's been a real boom in the area lately, people trying to escape the suburbs, which, of course, turns the place they flee to into the new suburbs. There are major commercial areas where I remember farmland. And I'm 23. My useful memory isn't all that long. I'm talking about 10 years ago, cornfield. 5 years ago, corn. Today: starbucks.

So today's customer of the day. I'm stocking the Coke (not my job, BTW) and a lady asks me if we have seltzer water. I reply that I'm not sure (as it's not my area), but if we do, they'd be one aisle over by the margariate mixes and such, next to the water. A minute later, she comes back around. "Do you have this in cases?" Nope. Proceeds to argue with me. "How do you know if you didn't know if you even carried it?" "That would be because I spent the first half of yesterday in that part of the warehouse, and we have virtually no liquid-type things at all there" So, naturally, I'm asked to go check anyway. In the back I stare at the vast empty space that I knew was there, and my boss walks by, and asks me what I'm doing. I make a strangling motion with my hands and say that I'm helping a customer, and she laughs. The lady's response to my report of a complete lack of cases of seltzer water. "I guess I'll just have to load like a thousand of the bottles into my cart then"

Proceeds to grab three.

That's just short of half of what she was asking me to haul out for her in the first place.

09:46 pm: Updaty goodness
*look at LJ*

*tries to remember password*

Did you know computers can die of neglect? It's true. When I got home from the Georgia road trip, my computer started acting all squirrely. Not wanting to boot and such. No problem. Fixed it.

Two days latter.... my computer, my beloved frankenstein with no original parts left of the Dell from 1993, dies the final death from which there is no recovery. Mobo... dead. Main hard drive... dead. No apparent cause. I am firmly convinced that a whole week of me not touching it at all caused it to pine away, sapping its strength until it no longer had the will to... um... compute.

My computer is dead.

Long live my computer.

I'm enjoying her replacement, which has a much much better processor. Went from 450mHz to 2.66gHz. Yay! Needs more memory though, but at the price they had for the factory upgrade is half of what I could get RAM for at the nearby office store. Now it's just a matter of actually having more money. heh.

Pulled the two auxiliary hard drives out of the old one and mirrored them onot the new computer. This makes me happy that I keep all my important data (except my books-read database, dammit!) on a redundant device. And then all the install zips for nearly everything I'd installed on a different device.
Losses: minimal. Except my stupid book database. Dammit.

For those of you who know about it, the new job is starting to pick up nicely. I'm still working at Wal*Mart, but now I'm doing part time techy stuff for a small ISP startup in a nearby town. I've been doing service calls, setting up folks' email and such, and I'm taking over the company website immediately. I'll post a link when I have something there that's actually mine.

And I'm plaing a new fun game. Got into the user system, made myself an account and gave myself full administrative privvies. Which is great fun, yes, but the game is waiting to see how long it takes the boss to notice what I've done.

12:43 pm: Road trip
Note to self: for future reference, 16 hours in a car is never to be referred to as "no sweat" again.

Drove to Georgia (from northern IL) to visit my aunt. Driving 16 hours with a passenger who can't really drive a stick shift = not fun. But at least she could sing, so I wasn't listening to bad off-key renderings of whatever was on the radio (that's how I sing).

Am having much fun and don't really want to go back on sunday. Moreover, really don't want to drive back. Ever. It might be easier just to move to georgia and have my stuff shipped over. I could find a job in Georgia. It's nice here, very pretty, and I got to drive over a mountain to get here! Might not seem like a big deal, but there's nothing that really even resembles a mountain in the part of Illinois I'm from. Or, for that matter, hills.

Spent half the day tuesday playing Dance Dance Revolution at the Funsville Arcade, which I'd never played before. If I'd known how much fun it was, I probably wouldn't have avoided the machines before now. So I picked up the XBox version and the pad that goes with it. Get some practice and maybe I won't suck so much.

Went to the bookstore and got the abridgement of "The Princess Bride", the one they made the movie out of, and the hair stuff store, where I decided it would be a good idea to put blue streaks in my hair. (yes, really. Pictures eventually). Then, drank more than I should have. Aunt's boyfriend still sleeping it off, hehe.

08:56 pm: A funny random story
A memory from when I was 19, and one of the proudest moments of my life...

I punched a woman who was eight inches shorter than me, and probably close to twenty years older than me, in the face so hard that she fell down backwards.

Of course, to make that story work out in my favor, I do need to mention the fact that she was a second degree black belt and a full-contact kickboxing champion training for a boxing tournament and that I was her sparring partner, and that she had spent the past six years completely thrashing me every time we sparred, to the point that before I got a car, when my mother would pick me up from the dojo, she would come early just to watch the aforementioned woman pick me up [i]off[/i] the ground, roll me over her shoulders, and throw me down on my back. So, all in all, I thought, at the time, that finding a gap in her guard big enough to slide a fist through and connecting hard enough to make sure she felt it was a great indicator of progress on my part.

The end of the story, of course, is less grand, wherein she got up, congratulated me on a good connect, and proceeded to thrash me quite soundly. Rest assured, I was still spending more time with stars in my eyes than she ever did. In the end, I'm glad she was one of my teachers, and not one of my enemies. (-:

For anyone interested, no, she didn't win the boxing tournament, but as I recall, she did make a great showing.

02:54 pm: Bored. Writing. Silly.

( Poem )</lj-cut"

06:09 pm: A poem. Non-project related.
So. An actual new poem. Been a while since I wrote more than one in the space of a month.

( Quiet Moments )

There will be a Poetry Project... of DOOM update as soon as I get past the really horrible stuff I'm copying right now. This was my "I suck at 90mph" phase, I think.

06:01 pm: A bit of irony.
I got this journal for two reasons. One, so I could comment in friend's journals without being an annoying "anonymous" user. Two, to kick myself a bit and start writing some more.

Reason one's worked out just fine. At least I'm not anonymous.

However, regarding reason two. In the last month, I've written more original stuff than I had for about a year before that. I can prove it, it's sitting in a comp book next to my bed that I've had with me all month. And my poetry's come back, which is a thing I cannot express enough happiness about. A couple were rough, but one or two turned out alright. But I keep not typing it out and posting it like I'd intended. Some of it isn't really for public consumption, and that's fine, but most of it is shareable. *kicks self a bit* Will post something tonight. Unless I go out, which I kind of doubt. Going hiking tomorrow, and I've been tired all week, I need to get some sleep.