SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 70 of these films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list.Put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and submit post at the bottom. Have fun.

HAHAHAHA - I think this is totally wrong. I think it should be the other way around - if you've seen less than 70 of these films, then you have no life (like me :D) (I think the horror section killed me [uh - no pun intended?] because I've only ever seen one and that's about one too many for me. I am a WUSS, really.)

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Things That Are Annoying Me Greatly

= Stupid Itunes and its need to get updated what seems like every month. And every month, I have no idea what version of Itunes I'm gonna get. I wouldn't get the updates, honestly, but the download prompt is insistent and won't let you be in peace until you download it. So you have no choice but to download the updates. That stupid, clever Itunes. *sticks tongue out*

= The fact that a band I love and subsequently have been listening to my whole life, the Goo Goo Dolls, is going to be in MY STATE, IN MY CITY next month. You know how often that happens? How often the stars and planets align perfectly and a big name band like that comes to this small, piddly-diddly town?? NEVER! Now, NORMALLY this wouldn't annoy me (I WOULD BE SHRIEKING FOR JOY AND WHEN I FOUND OUT FOR A MOMENT I WAS) but it's on a Tuesday and at 7:30, and I don't get out of class on Tuesdays until 7:10. Blah, blah, blabbity blah!! Why couldn't they come on a Friday or Saturday or even a Sunday??? WHYYYYYYY?

= School in general. That first week was OK and everything but it's all going to go downhill from here.

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So I survived my first week back at school. The art class, I thought was going to be easy and stuffies, but it doesn't seem to be looking that way. I also had to spend $100 for the required art supplies (which includes a big-ass cardboard portfolio that's ugly and as big as I am so I have to awkwardly carry it when I bring it from the car to the class, but there's also some other cool stuff like paint, paint brushes, and calligraphy ink and OMG I HOPE THAT MEANS WE WILL GET TO DO CALLIGRAPHY BECAUSE I LOVE CALLIGRAPHY!!!). I still have to go shopping for the sketchpad we have to have. (I have one, but it's small with a childish cover on it that I think I got from Wal-Mart just so I could doodle in it and not a spiral one that's appropriate for ~college.) You know, for something that I'm not majoring in, a lot of money is going toward it. Sigh. I guess that's how the world works.

Also, the second day of art class involved me staring a lot at this guy and not paying attention to the art slides the teacher was going through (I noticed him on the first day too but that was more of a passing 'he's cute' thought and not much brain power devoted to it, unlike during this class...yeah). Yes, for the last fifty minutes of the class, I kept staring at him and thinking, "Why do you have to be sooo cute??" And then he went to lie down on this big round thing he was sitting on that was in the middle of the classroom (I have no idea what this thing is but it's big, round and probably used for pottery) and his shirt rode up so that his hipbone jutted out and omg, I have never seen such a beautiful hipbone in my life! (Not that I, uh, spend a lot of time looking at people's hipbones.) Guys, you have no idea how handsome this guy is! And especially in a school where a lot of the male population is composed of random, uncouth guys who look like hobos (no offense to hobos). Even when he sweats, he looks hot doing it!

So, yeah, I'm in trouble here. Goodbye to the next four months of trying to concentrate. (I hate that when I crush on someone, I crush *hard* and *long*. You know I'm still crushing on a guy I knew all through elementary & middle school and, even though I have no idea where he is now, I still think of him at random times.)

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If you’ve been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question. Tag eleven people. Don’t refuse to do that. Don’t tag who tagged you. (tagged by amethysth.)

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Also - not that I would expect people to - but please don't crosspost comments made here on my LJ to Facebook (especially the flocked entries). It's more of my weird privacy thing really because there's me on here and then there's me on Facebook and those are separate things (it's a long story but basically no one in my RL knows I'm a fannish person and I'd like to keep it that way). I mean I do have some friends who read both my FB account and my livejournal but that's not a problem because I trust those people to not blab about my fannish pursuits to people I might not want to have that information.

I personally won't use this feature on FaceBook, so it's useless for me. (Both my LJ & Twitter are already linked although I don't understand why LJ has this new feature now anyways since LiveJournal, Twitter, and Facebook are all different things, used for different purposes and NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET but whatever, LJ. I think so many other sites have crosspost features that maybe LJ is trying to be cool too? It's not working for them, btw).

So I promise to NOT crosspost comments I make on other people's posts to Facebook or Twitter unless they explicitly give me permission to do so and I'd like it if the same was done for me (because if I wanted my Facebook linked with my Livejournal, trust me, it would've been linked already).

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I was trying to write this The Vampire Diaries fic for Yuletide's New Year Resolutions 2010 thingy that I had started last year (I have always wanted to participate in yuletide, but it's kinda intimidating and the NYR seem more flexible because they happen year-round and not just in the holiday season and you're not responsible for giving someone a fic which is what gives me the most anxiety because I do not trust that my muse will be there when the time comes to write someone a gift) but I just don't think the way I'm writing it now is going to work (not that I have a lot written). It's a threesome fic with Katherine/Damon/Stefan and while usually threesomes squick me the hell out, this would be the only instance where I gladly welcome the threesome-ness - because it works, somehow, in my demented brain. Except this was before we knew more about Katherine and what happened before Stefan and Damon and the show decidedly did not display a threesome relationship between the characters - which is one of the reasons I'm thinking it won't work in terms of canon. (The other reason being that I can't at all write Katherine. She's just too much of an evil, manipulative character for me to get a handle on. I also have no idea why I originally thought the relationship between Katherine, Damon, and Stefan was canonically a threesome one. Maybe if this wasn't a high school show...But probably not.)

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter as this particular prompt has already been answered so my own fic would have to just be a TVD fic for regular occasion. But, man, is it frustrating because I think I'm gonna have to scrape the story because nothing's coming or going! And I don't think it's my inherent dislike for threesome fic either that's roadblocking me because - as I've mentioned previously - I'm totally on the bandwagon in this fandom for the threesome (and even a Stefan/Elena/Damon threesome in present day) because it could totally fix everything and actually be kinda romantic - in a demented sort of way because, yeah, they're still vampires so there's a degree of demented-ness guaranteed.

Because I love Stefan/Damon together but I also love Stefan/Elena together and have been warming up to Damon/Elena so really a threesome is the only solution. (I don't like Katherine at all but that's best left alone. I did ship her with Damon once upon a time, gladly, but that's when I thought Damon was irredeemable so he and Katherine fit together well like the two "evil" characters they were, but that's not the case as of the season finale.)

Of course, it could all be chalked up to: the muse is fickle.

I don't care either way, if the story works out or not, because I didn't have a definitive plan going into the writing. If I think up something, I'll continue it but I don't think it's worth my energy writing about a character I don't really understand or like (I mean Katherine, because the piece is largely about her while Damon & Stefan are just the background characters).

Meh.

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Well, here it is, the thing I've been working on for two days. I actually started learning how to make a fanvid because of a current challenge in my stargateland comm, except this isn't a Stargate vid because I wanted to first go through a dry run, I'd guess you'd say, before I made the real thing to be entered and counted for points (and also I have to go hunt down some Stargate Atlantis clips, seriously lacking those).

Song Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
Fandom Degrassi: The Next Generation

There's a few things I could've changed and done better, but it's just a test to see if I can make a fanvid. Critiques are welcome though. :D I also wanted it to be a generic Holly J./Declan fanvid but I think a few themes sneaked in there.

Suspicious Minds from MD on Vimeo.

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- wheeeeeeeeeee!!!!! in the process of making my first fanvid!! There's just so much to learn! A few things I did learn so far: (1) cutting and placing relevant clips is apparently an art form in itself, (2) sometimes the mute button will not work T__T and sometimes not even the cutting button will work right (for me at least)!!! (3) I still have no idea if I can move the clips around in the specific order that I want, haven't found any way to do that, so now the clips are just being played in the order that they're dropped. (4) It takes a really, really LONG time to create clips from one episode/media clip. Like an hour and twenty minute long movie, it takes about 86 minutes to create clips you can drop in your fanvid, and for a 22 minute show, it takes about 22 minutes. Which translates to a lot of down time before I can fiddle around with the clips and get to the actually making of a fanvid (because when you create clips, it freezes Windows Movie Maker so that you can't collapse the window or do anything else on WWM until the process of creating clips is done).

- it's going to be horrible! but despite that, I'm sooo freakin' excited!!

- also had my interview this morning for volunteering at the hospital. It wasn't like a real interview interview because there are so many positions you can work in and so few volunteers. It's not like a job where you have more than one person vying for that position. It was more of a meet-and-greet sort of interview - but still, nerve-wrecking. (And the lady doing the interview did ask me questions like 'why do you want to volunteer at MMC?' but mostly it was me signing a few papers and her trying to pencil in when I can volunteer - because my college schedule is crazy).

- so thinking about volunteering and still going to the part-time job I already have at the library and going to class...things will be super crazy for the foreseeable future and I will not have much time for other things. (Other things being like land comms and general tomfoolery.) Super depressing. :(

MEMES~!!!~

* Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books fics I might get around to writing one day, characters in my fandoms, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, OTPs, anti-OTPs (which I think I mean least fave pairing), love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments).

* the ones in bold relate to me:

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My God - Rodney McKay just wouldn't shut up in my head and then he drove me to this! (It's really quite annoying.) Written in about three hours - unbeta'd and most likely a mess, so comments/critique will be most welcome.

Natural Progression | Sheppard/McKay | R (for strong language) | wc 2, 291 | Written for challenge #78 finally for mcsheplets


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I woke up this morning dead tired. I did stumble into bed at 4 in the morning after taking a hour long bath. I woke up at ten minutes to 12 in the afternoon so I have no idea why I'm dead tired, just that I am. Going back to school in about three weeks is going to kill me. I'm dreading it even now. ):

I also tried harassing my parents to let me go and see a meteor show that went on tonight with my school's planetarium (the Perseids were going to be seen). But I of course couldn't go because well, a) I couldn't just drive myself and my parents for some reason couldn't drive me and b) they said I couldn't go because it'd be at night and I'd be alone and they weren't having that. (Have I ranted here about my parents' double standard about how my BROTHERS can stay out as late as they want but I can't stay out past ten unless I'm with someone? Preferably a male someone? Not that I listen to them about going to bed at a reasonable hour but man, this old-country attitude of theirs really pisses me off.) I'm still so angry and bummed out that I missed this awesome opportunity.

I guess all I can do now is just add watching a meteor shower on my 'to experience' list.

D: But I'm still so bummed and it's going to keep gnawing at me, I can tell.

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I also randomly just remembered this Sailor Moon story I wrote like six months ago and promptly forgot about it - until tonight when I suddenly remembered it and hunted it down - If I Could Fall In Love. Yeah, the story is as cheesy as the title lets on but *shrug* I love cheesy stories so, can't feel too guilty. :D There's probably more I can do with the story - some tweaking and editing here and there- but I'll save that for another time and when I have more energy.

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So, last night, I had this truly horrifying idea: what if the cast of Sailor Moon reversed genders?

.....clearly I had to follow this train of thought to its natural conclusion. Now I love Sailor Moon and the original cast, dearly, and would not want to actually have to think about a real-live action Western movie but this is all for fun, imagining how Sailor Moon would be different if the main characters were a different gender. Subsequently, if the main characters of SM were a different gender, Sailor Moon would NOT be known as Sailor Moon - it'd just be known as another male-centric superhero tv series.  

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(Yes, this is what happens when people let me I stay up late. And get bored out of my mind.)

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OK, so I feel like I have to explain that I have been working on this for the past three weeks and then I proceeded to hide from it by reading much more fantastic fics because I did not want to work on it as I felt pretty burned out writing wise. This also sucks, I have no idea why I even started writing it in the first place except for the fact that it's for a challenge for sailormoonland and I really would love to help my teammates (but the muse, she is vicious and cruel). The story also sounded much more exciting in my head, but written down, not so much. I still hate it and I don't think there's gonna be any more (which is a shame because there go all those lovely points down the drain). *sigh* I just wish I hadn't written it as one story. But I apparently like making this hard on my self. *cries*

themes completed: 4/35

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