The Midwest Loch Ness

Greetings, wanderer. This journal is mostly friends only. You can glean the general vibe from the select entries I've kept public. While I've aged and (hopefully) matured, some of my interests have faded and others have grown stronger, but I'm still the same confused creature at heart. Forever longing to bravely roam the skies and protect all I hold dear with fiery breath, but too often paralyzed by indecision, hiding in my massive protective puddle, shrouded by the mists.

Tomorrow I need to actually leave the house. This won't be a fun task. The icy streets will still be slick in places. At least I won't be using the highway...

I probably should have rescheduled this acupuncture appointment, but I had already postponed last month when I had a cold.

Maybe I'll switch out and have the chiro do cupping instead. It's been awhile since I've had that done, and I think my muscles need it more than my nerves need the acupuncture.

Hmm. I have a sneaking suspicion that Google's new image-search capability now extends to the way it displays ads. I just couldn't help but notice how strange it was that I see an ad for Jane Eyre superimposed next to my current friends-mostly sticky post, which contains Elizabeth Bennett poring over her "love/hate" letter.

But I can't be completely certain of my suspicion, because I also recently changed my interests to include Jane Austen.

Either way... Adsense's reasoning must be "Hmm, this person must like 19th Century Brit Lit centering on heroines in delicate situations. Yeah... this ad is perfect!"

Also, there was a preview for Breaking Dawn right before the movie.... and at the (ridiculously fan-service-y) moment Jacob tears off his shirt to transform (because he's a maaaaaaaaaaaad, moody teenage shapeshifter, who cares about his clothes, of course), a lady in the back row screams in delight.

Yes, that happened.

*facepalm*

Just woke up to a kinda terrifying dream.
Mom was driving me home, and we turned onto a side-street as a shortcut, and saw a WHOLE MESS (like a half-dozen or so) of people (all of them were black) laying all over the street and near it. They looked dead, like there was some sort of massacre or group-targeted drive-by.
Mom stopped the car virtually in the middle of them, and we saw one of them (a little girl in pink) raise her hand. We both took out our phones to call 9-1-1. Mine went to this weird message from Sprint (what? I have T-Mobile.... yeesh, dream, get it right!) about maybe calling at the same time other people are trying to reach 9-1-1. Mom said she thought she was getting through, so I opened my door to get out of the car and check on people. A hand brushed my leg. A little boy was almost underneath me! I knelt over him and held his hand, asking if he was okay. He just said "oww."
I asked him where it hurt, and with his other hand, he pointed to his head. I couldn't see well, so I wasn't sure if he was shot or just hit...

And then my alarm ended the dream.

Wow. I am incredibly behind on the times (school/job/moving/family drama and various things having stolen my free time over the past year...) on all things Doctor Who, but what the heck? New Logo!



Weeeeirdness!

...and now to watch the first Matt Smith episode.

*crosses fingers and hopes he's really good*

Exciting news!
News which requires a background, though... because I don't think people will properly understand my excitement without an explanation... because I'm just weird like that.

I grew up listening to DC Talk and Newsboys... these bands have since become ingrained in my psyche and stand near the center of my personal musical preferences. In other words, I would listen to DC Talk or Newsboys on any day, in any mood... even if I had a headache or suddenly contracted a rare allergy to sound (man, that would hurt).

When DC Talk split up, I was heartbroken... but I had one glimmer of hope: they were all starting solo projects. I didn't care for K-Max, and I wasn't a fan of Tobymac's solo project* in the beginning, but I instantly fell in love with Tait. Empty was the first CD I ever bought! I was so obsessed with getting Lose this Life that I listened to the radio religiously until I won it! Tait is like brain music for me. If I was sent to a desert island and allowed only one CD,** I would choose Lose This Life. In fact, a few semesters ago, I popped Lose This Life into my car's CD Player and didn't take it out for almost four months! That's how much I listened to it. I don't know many Tait fans aside from my sister... but there's just something about Tait that gets to my very soul.

The Newsboys are a slightly different story. This band has always been on the radio. Always. I never did get any of their CDs until a few years ago, because I could turn on the radio whenever I felt like it, and my sisters and friends had Newsboys CDs that they played in the car all the time. I loved Shine: The Greatest Hits, but I also love their lesser known songs like "Break," which is so heartfelt and beautiful it makes me cry sometimes. I love how the Australian lilt in their voices comes out so subtly and then so obviously.

So there's the background.

Now here's what I heard a few days ago: Michael Tait is joining Newsboys as their lead singer!
This is amazing news... and a little surreal. I love Micheal Tait's singing voice, but wow... wow! And I know he's gonna be amazing--I mean, he actually does sound quite a lot like Peter Furler, if you compare the--how shall I put it--texture of their singing voices.
This brings up some questions, though. What about the Tait Band? What about Loveology?
Honestly, though... even if the band has gone and Loveology hasn't a chance... I'm still SO HAPPY for Micheal Tait! This is just awesome!


On an amusing note, Micheal seems to be wearing the same hat on the newsboys photo-op that he's wearing on his myspace page. As a fellow hat person, methinks that he really REALLY likes that hat! I must say, it is quite adorable!


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* Though he has since gained my favor with his more recent addition of reggae style into his music... much kudos for that, Toby!
** Assuming, of course, that the CD Player had an inexhaustible energy source.

My mind won't shut up!
I laid in my bed for about an hour trying to shut it up so I could sleep, and I finally I just gave up... I blame the nap I had tuesday afternoon. Silly nap!

I've been wondering about twitter lately... anybody have it? Is it worth it? what's it like? I keep seeing all these little twitter boxes around the webcomics I read, and facebook statuses via twitter... Why so popular?

Also, I really want to see Big Bang Theory right now... I am sorely tempted to waste a precious half-hour of sleep-time on that oh-so-awesome show. Hmm... I'm not tired anyway, and my mind isn't gonna shut up anytime soon... but this would give it even more to chatter on about!

*sigh* Decisions decisions!
One of my classmates from ages ago referred me to her son for a website he wants to start up... problem is that I'm SO rusty! I've been researching on how to change up my own website, and it has not been going well. I start looking at the html and css coding that I did two years ago, and I can't even understand my own creation! It's like I've completely lost my memory. And then there's the CMS possibilities I've looked at--those would require me to be even more advanced in knowledge if I wanted to make my site look good.

*about 30 minutes later*

Ah, ok... Big Bang Theory.... was... definitely interesting! and... I'm getting sleepy! finally! YAY!!!

It's like the past and the future are these big looming hills overhead, and the present is a bored little valley in between. There's not much to do in this valley... just lie around and watch the scenery. I practically tumbled from some places in my past... as if they were cliffs. But the real work is up ahead in the future. It looks like such a steep climb...

Okay... maybe now would be a good time to have a big emotional meltdown.

Um... there are a few possibilities
*Finish the entire assignment in 2 hours
*Ask if I can turn in the paper later today (this was asked by and granted to another student in the class a few weeks ago for the bibliography assignment)
*Don't show up in class but email the assignment when finished
*Don't show up to class and just forget about it altogether
*Finish the paper with the sources and turn in the cover sheet in class
*turn in the cover sheet at class and the rest later
*cry
*shout
*rant at myself like a lunatic
*write in LJ instead of doing my paper

oh... wait, I'm already doing that last one :P

Oh yes, I AM getting my just deserts. Argh.