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We went and saw Harry Potter. I don't really have specific thoughts about it beyond meh. Though I imagine it's hard to earnestly build suspense when you know that your audience can go to wikipedia and find out what happens in the next movie.

I've been feeling kinda meh in general for the past 24ish hours. My left calf hurts, right near the back of my knee, so no wii fit tonight. I'm going to hope if feels better tomorrow and I can get back on track.

Top Chef Masters is not holding my attention but there's nothing to distract me. It's kinda meh too, though not as bad as HP. It is making me look forward to the return of regular Top Chef though, so I guess it's successful in that light.

I've been reading Mother Night and it's a good book for someone without much of an attention span, which is where I'm at right now. I have lots of nice, fat, (somewhat) dense books that I could be reading, that I want to read, but I look at them and just...meh. But they aren't going anywhere and I've resolved not to buy any more books until I've finished at least one of the ones I have now.

I have rp posts to write (I know that everyone kinda wants to kill me over that) and fics beginnings that need endings and that startrekbigbang isn't going to write itself (it needs a plot. It really needs a plot).

I just can't seem to muster up the energy to do anything. Meh.

This was going to be an addition to the last post but it just kept getting longer, so it's getting it's own post.

I meant to mention that I'm really, seriously considering law school for realz now. The only problem is that there are two schools within driving distance. One of them is the University of Toledo, which it looks like isn't that hard to get into. The other is the University of Michigan. Which is only one of the most selective law schools in the country. It'd be great if I could get in. With my undergrad gpa not being great and my grad school transcript including 2 C's, that's a pretty big if. I really would have to get a perfect score on the LSAT, write a stunning personal statement, probably write at least one of their supplemental essays (most likely the one on why my grades aren't that good), finish my thesis (so as to facilitate being done with my master's degree and free to pursue another), have my master's thesis be so outstanding as to be publishable (I'm only kinda kidding with that one), get 3 really awesome recommendations, and get really really lucky.

I guess it's time to start studying for the LSAT (and sign up to take it, that would be helpful).

I've been doing the wii fit regularly but I'm declaring today to be an off day. My legs are just dead and my knee is a little achy. Better to let it rest for the day than end up awake all night because it hurts.

Also, ak might be making minute steak for dinner. This is a plan I heartily endorse. Omnomnom.

This (Sociological Pictures: Allegorical Figures) popped up on my DW circle (which I use for RSS feeds) and I though it was really interesting. It talks about the use of women's bodies as symbols. How, "Men are characters, women are symbols."

Also, this (The Place of Women on the Court) is an interesting interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg on, amazingly, the place of women on the Supreme Court. Have I mentioned she's totally one of the reasons that I want to become a lawyer (on the days I want to become a lawyer)? She never comes across as anything but really fucking smart, which Sotomayor sometimes does and sometimes doesn't.

The NYTimes is live blogging her confirmation hearings but I don't have a handy link. Anyway, I still haven't gotten the hang of following live blogging, so I much prefer C-SPAN's live coverage

No, I don't know why I think any of you people that care aren't familiar with c-span's website, or the NYTimes. They're not exactly unknown players in the world of politics.

Also, the Femslash Kink Meme is still going on. Neither cleo nor I thought that it would be as successful as it's turning out to be. Give femsalsh fandom a little anonymity and they actually can get kinky! Yay kinky porn!

I've started doing the wii fit and while I haven't lost any weight (believe me, after 3 days I wasn't expecting to have) I am feeling much more energetic. I'm also drinking more water, which is never a bad thing. I'm really hoping that the BGSU fencing club is still active but I probably won't find out anything until classes start again. I'm incredibly excited about the prospect of getting to fence again. If I do, there will probably be pictures of bruises. It's gonna be awesome.

Oh, I applied for a job today. I should probably find some more jobs to apply for. I'll look tomorrow.

And the femslash kink meme is still going strong. Have I mentioned how excited that makes me? I knew femslash could get back into the kinky.

cleo is hosting the first annual Femslash Kink Meme at her dw journal. Hopefully it'll be hot and porny and kinky. In order of that to happen, people have to actually go over there and play. Consider this your official notice.

Femslash Kink Meme <--- there be PORN!!!

So, I have a bunch of dreamwidth invite codes and I'd love to be able to give them to people I've at least heard of. Does anyone want one?

I am sooo stealing this from helens78

Post the first line of a story here, and I'll write the next five. No context or prompts, just a line, and if I don't twig who it is then you'll get something slightly surreal back!

With the addendum:

1. If you post the next up-to-five lines, I will try to keep it going.

I make no promises about just what my response might contain. Play at your own risk.

So, I'm looking at law schools again... Still not sure if it's genuine interest or just general fear of being out of school and not knowing if I'll be able to write my thesis. Still, it's something I keep coming back to. I have until the end of August to decide if I want to take the September LSAT but I'd like to decide sooner rather than later. If I take it, I need to practice the logic games. I'm not worried about the other two parts of the test but I just get so frustrated with the "there are roads between cities A, B, C, D, E, and F... Which towns do the roads connect" type things. My GRE scores make me pretty confident about the reading comprehension and my formal logic is pretty good, if a bit rusty. It's just those damned games. My GPA is nowhere near good enough to overcome a bad LSAT score. In fact, my LSAT score has to be damned near perfect (which is doable because you can miss something like 10 questions and still make a perfect score... don't ask me).

Yeah... I don't know.

I've posted like a zillion times today but that's not going to stop me:

Re Wednesday's Y&R: Phyllis and Sharon, when are you just going to get over it and start having sex with each other? You have so much more chemistry than Rafe and Adam.

eta: And I imagine that Victoria could summon up a much better reaction to discovering that than she managed when Nikki told her about Rafe and Adam.

So, I couldn't justify spending $75 on Jem but I can totally justify $120 on Babylon 5 (5 seasons of B5 at that price seems pretty good to me). It seems like B5 just keeps popping up on my reading lists lately. I don't know if it's related to Battlestar ending or the new Star Trek movie or lack of scifi on tv right now (not counting Torchwood, which has also eaten my reading lists) or if there's something else going on that I can't see/don't know about. Anyway, there will be much B5 watching in the future.

We also bought season 4 of TNG today (we had one of those extra 15% off stickers from B&N). It's the last season we needed of TNG. We've been buying them during the buy two get one free thing they do periodically. We're nowhere close to done collecting DS9 and Voyager. And I assume that now that we have all of TNG I'll start hearing something about how there are plans to release it on blue ray (maybe they'll wait until they've finished releasing TOS, which we're also slowly collecting). If that happens, I guess we can just sell them (assuming that they do as good a job on a TNG re-release as they seem to have done on the TOS episodes). Actually, what I'd really like to get on blue ray would be The West Wing. Amazon has a notify me thing up but other info seems to be scarce.

As for the supposed Aaron Sorkin/pseudo-MSNBC type show... I'm really beginning to think that he just has a crush on Kieth Olberman as Sports Night came from watching him on Sports Center and he's described the new idea as being based on Olberman's show on MSNBC. Yeah, Sorking just has a thing for Keith. I'm just hoping that it doesn't turn into a bad remake of Murphy Brown (but with a male lead, more gender issues and the devaluation of any religion other than Judaism and Catholicism). Just let it be the good Aaron Sorkin and not the bad one.

Things I do not have right now: $75 to spend on Jem and the Holograms dvds. Or $50 to spend on She-Ra dvds. I did not even look at how much the Rainbow Bright dvds were.

cleo and I must go buy things today. Things like light bulbs and cat litter and printer paper. We actually have a substantial list. Also, we need to go grocery shopping in general. We have frozen things and snacks but shockingly little real food that you can make meals from. Eating one real meal a day does not work for me, not to mention that it isn't healthy in general. We have a nice kitchen, we should use something in it besides the coffeemaker and the microwave.

Also, I really must plug in the external hard drives and look for my resume sometime today.

Historial Tweets: Best thing ever? y/y?

So, I'm thinking of stretching the back holes in my ears from a 14 gauge (I think) to a 10. I don't really wear earrings, so I'm not sure what the impulse is but whatever. I'm going to sit here and think about it for a few more weeks and see if I forget about it. If I don't, then maybe I'll look into it a bit more seriously. I also want a tattoo on my left forearm but I don't know what of. I'm thinking I might read Contact again and see if there's anything in there that catches my eye.

The job search is pretty non-existent right now. I need to find my resume (or rewrite it). I really have no idea how to go about doing this. I haven't looked for a job in 4 years and last time I had people calling me (for financial advising jobs, oddly, as it isn't something I have any experience in and math isn't my strong suit). I didn't get any of those jobs, so, yeah... I don't know. I'm just rambling cause I'm tired.

Any advise on either the piercing/tattooing front or the job searching front is appreciated.

And hey, I need to start working on my thesis again. Fun times.

So, this meta: Meta: Femslash ToTTBoTB? showed up on metafandom tonight and I'm not in any kind of state to comment tonight. But I think some other people on my f-list might have cogent thoughts. So people who think about these things should go read and comment and stuff.

I'm doing startrekbigbang: Pke/Number One. *takes deep breaths* This will officially be at least 3 times longer than anything I've ever written.

Star Trek IV on blu-ray looks awesome. They did a great job with it and everything looks super shiney... and look at that, Uhura gets to DO HER JOB with the probe's bizarre transmission where they can get to the whole whale thing.

There aren't any boxes in the living room. There's one in the office full of random office stuff, one in the kitchen with the rock band drums and my fencing stuff in it, and 4 boxes in the spare room full of all sorts of randomness. I keep looking in them and not knowing what to do with the stuff that's there. But hey, we're down to 6 boxes!

We're going to Pittsburgh tomorrow afternoon and staying through the 4th. Maybe next year we'll be able to have our usual 4th of July party but this seems like it's going to be fun.

Let's see, what else...

I need to start looking for a job. Anyone have any job hunting tips?

I also need to start working on my thesis again. Ignoring it will not make it go away. Anyone have any I-can't-seem-to-write-anything-but-I have-to-write-this tips?

I got my genretwisting prompts and I <3 them all. But I have not felt like writing much of anything lately. I'm hoping that F_T's porn battle might fix that. There were some awesome prompts when last I looked. I'm afraid all of mine are too bizarre and random but that's okay. The last bizarre pairing I prompted for was Natalia/Olivia last October/November and I'm sure that everyone over looked the prompt. I'd just like to say that I totally called it. Not that anything I prompted for has any possibility of becoming real this time around as most of them are utterly random crossovers. Though I'd really, really love it if someone would answer my ST XI: Number One/Uhura prompt.

I think that's it.

femslash_today is hosting a porn battle over the 4th of July weekend, so everyone should head over there and come up with some awesome prompts.

I got a dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures eventually.