End Theme Plays
Monday, April 18, 2005 -|- 02:10 a.m.

The sad day has come. I finally broke down and made a livejournal account. *sob* I like my lovely pita! Why, why must all of my friends be on livejournal? Bleh. So Pipe Dreams, fuzzytoes pita edition is changing to Pipe Dreams fennelwink lj addition. Will I keep posting here? I dunno, time will tell won't it? Thanks for all of you that have been with me for the ride, we've jumped tracks, but the ride goes ever on. Continue the ride!

MC Chris Owns
Saturday, April 16, 2005 -|- 03:26 a.m.

Monday was the first time I ever have been to a live show in a club, whathaveyou. It was small, and very very loud. But hey, I have to say I enjoyed myself. The Yuppy Pricks were amusing in their little tennis outfits, tho I couldn't understand half of what they were singing. How do the bartenders keep their hearing intact? But half the fun was the friends I was with. And then, finally we get to the main act. MC Chris is awesome, gotta say. That was just a blast. Had a lot of fun. Picked up a cd and got it signed, so been listening to that. I need to burn off the first cd so I can listen to it outside of my computer. Fun stuff. Even better when you read the lyrics so you can tell what they are as the go speeding by.

Pan Mood
Saturday, April 16, 2005 -|- 02:49 a.m.

I've been on a Peter Pan kick again as of late. Mostly because of a recent viewing of Return to Neverland. We also watched Mulan 2, which was hysterical if you realize that after the show ended, China was destroyed. Trust me on this one. But back to Return to Neverland. Bummed once again I didn't see it in theaters. More bummed that I finally watch it when darn Disney has it locked up in its vaults. Darn it, my Pan fetish needs feeding. Why can't I buy my own copy right now? I know it's a Disney sequel, and it isn't perfect because of this. My biggest complaint is the weenieness of the pirates and no Indians to be found. Darn PCness. But despite all that, I found it to be charming. It did a good job of showing Jane to be a completely different type of girl from Wendy. One of my favorite scenes has to be Peter and Wendy meeting face to face again. But the idea of Wendy growing up without Peter still makes me seven kinds of frustrated. On some levels I'm happy with it, on others, grar! Peter's a bastard. A cocky, adorable childish bastard. I am a Peter and Wendy shipper if you couldn't tell. The live action movie made the idea of their separation even harder to take. But here, in the Disney version, I can still find it sweet. 'Nother weird note. While watching the credits and listing to the full version of "I'll Try" I realize that I know the singer and freakin own one of her cds! Should have know it sounded familiar. Must remember to get more Jonatha Brooke cds in the future. And to think I was introduced to her through watching Buffy. Gah, I need this soundtrack, this stuff is good.

It's Bats, Man
Saturday, April 9, 2005 -|- 12:27 a.m.

So I'm at work , like less than an hour to closing, I look up and there's a bat in the store, zooming around like crazy. I have no clue how the thing got in, but it didn't seem happy about it. It eventually found a quiet spot of celing and clung there. Was still there when we left. I called the morning managers to let them know about it. But I'm off tomorrow. Wonder how that will go. I can just imagine the store full of ladies and the thing starts zooming around again. Women screaming, trampeling to the door. Ah chaos. Wahahaa. But I like the bat. Poor little lost guy. I'm going to call him Fred. I guess I'll see what happens with him Sunday. If he doesn't just go into hiding.

Quiz Answers
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 -|- 01:58 p.m.

Thanks to all of you that took Fennelwink's realm of geek quiz. And now, I shall explain the answers.

Question 1) "What was my first job?" All of the possible answers I listed are actual jobs I've held. But the first job I had was salad prep for Pizza Hut. That was in high school when I was trying to earn money for my senior trip. Eventually they got the stuff in pre-cut, so there was less and less for me to do. I was terrible at waitressing, but I did get roped into being a beer server when I turned 18. My job was pretty much phased out, but that was about the time my trip was coming up anyway, so it was all good. It wasn't a bad experience, but I don't particularly want to go back to food service again. The second job I had was office assistant in an ADD clinic. The office manager was a friend of my mom. I did this in the summers more than once. But during the semester, I had a work study job in the game room, giving out change and the like, making sure nobody broke anything. I also did this job several different semesters. One of those semesters I worked at stuffing envelopes in the mail room on this big mail out to new potential students. I caught the name of one of my high school friends and wrote a little message on her insert. I don't think she ever saw it. Ah well.

Question 2) "What old 60's TV show was I a huge fan of as a child?" Once again these were all shows that I did watch. I tripped several of you up with Classic Trek. I was quite fond of I Dream of Jeanie, I watched Bewitched sometimes, but it was The Monkees that I was a big geek over. I have almost all of their albums and watched the show religiously. In high school, my school librarian was also a big fan and we used to geek out together. We went to a friend of hers house to look at old 60's teen magazines once where we saw a picture of Michael Jackson when he was still black. Ah, good times, good times.

Question 3) "In Jr. High and High School, I was a huge geek for what show?" These were all shows that I and or my friends watched. My friends got me into watching Quantum Leap and Babylon 5, but I never saw enough episodes of Beauty and the Beast to really get into it. But Star Trek:TNG was what I was really into. I gave my friends ST nicknames. And yes, I wore a communicator pin to school for years, it's in my yearbook photos. This was where my true obsessive geekness shone. I was a Trekker, call me Trekkie at your own peril.

Question 4) "In the comic Elfquest, who is *not* one of my favorite characters?" I know not everyone is familiar with Elfquest, but it happens to be my favorite comic. Skywise and Strongbow are my favorite characters with Moonshade, Strongbow's mate, not far behind. Skywise was always my favorite character. He's both incredibly loyal and fun with a fascination with the stars. As I got older, I came to appreciate Strongbow's quiet strength and strict adherence to the Way. I also admired Moonshade's fierce loyalty to her mate and their strong bond. Doesn't hurt that I also think she's one of the prettiest females with her huge eyes and curly hair. Too bad their son, Dart, turned out so lame. Such wasted potential. I have my theories, but more on that later. Cutter is the main character of the series, but not one of my favorites. Not that I have anything against the guy, just doesn't really do it for me.

Question 5) "What Elfquest artist do I think should die a horrible, horrible death for the travesty that is their art?" Wendy Pini is the original artist and co-creator of the series, it would be silly to hate her art and still be into the comic. Besides, her art is the loveliest of them all. The rest of the artists did stuff for New Blood. Lea Hernandez did the nicest art of all of these artists after Wendy. Even if she only did one story. Bill Neville did some Loony Toonsish stories which were amusing. But it is the name of Barry Blair that I will forever curse. He seems fascinated with drawing little boys standing with their crotches bulging out. It is so very very gay. That and the art is just ugly. And to think this guy is the one that turned New Blood from an anthology title to a regular one following Dart and his band. I blame him for ruining Dart beyond repair. Curse you, Barry Blair. You and your crappy gay pedophile art.

Question 6) "What author have I never read?" This was supposed to be the "hard" question. Especially because the answer was originally going to be Mercedes Lackey. Unfortunately while checking my bookshelf to confirm that yes, I did own one book by Piers Anthony, I discovered that Mercedes Lackey had written stories for the Elfquest Blood of Ten Chiefs anthologies, so whoops. Out of these authors, Robert Jordan is the only author I have read several books by. I'm up to what, book 8 of Wheel of Time? Amusing that many of you thought this was the author I haven't read, but no, that would be Terry Brooks. Maybe one day, but as of yet, nope.

Question 7) "I play RPGs, but when did I start playing them?" I started playing RPGs after I met Heero in College. I started out just hanging out with my crosstitch since it was at his apartment, but pretty soon they got me into playing too. And I don't regret it a bit.

Question 8) "What movie did I cause such a scene during that people were turning around to look at me?" Heh. I don't think I made a scene of any kind during Peter Pan, tho I did have moments of WTF? During Phantom, I did have several times I waved my hands around in (mostly) silent WTF. I was there for Trilogy Tuesday which was the premiere of LOTR: Return of the King, so all of my reactions were masked by the rest of the crowd cheering right along at the same time. But it was during a showing of LOTR: The Two Towers that my scene occurred. I went up to visit my fellow fan WMC for an outdoor showing and I got rather drunk. The details are in my archives a few pages back, but lets just say that I have a favorite scene in that movie that was really working for me to the point that people around me wondered if someone was working on me.

Question 9) "What character have I *not* cosplayed as?" My first con, I cosplayed at Miaka and Tira Misu. I later altered my Tira costume and wore it several more times. I also went as Kotori more than once, tho sadly, it not a very recognizeable costume. The only one I have not cosplayed as is Fuu. I had talked about it, but it never actually happened.

And lastly, question 10) "What is my favorite show currently on TV?" I do watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Full Metal Alchemist, and Stargate: Atlantis. But Lost is the show I'm really into. It has a hobbit, and besides, it's a really good show. I'm currently interested to hear that Hojo has a theory that Lost is a slightly more realistic version of Elfquest. Amusingly enough I can see it. That will keep me thinking for quite a while.

Job Status
Monday, March 14, 2005 -|- 11:33 p.m.

This weekend one of my coworkers told me about a possible job opening at her day job. So I called them up today. Got blown off. They wanted someone with experience. *sigh* Oh well. I suppose it's for the best. It was quite a ways north of me. It was only my first try. There will be others.

Philoso'fy This
Monday, March 14, 2005 -|- 01:13 p.m.

I haven't posted in a while. I was wanting to post commentary on my quiz, but I'm still waiting for someone to take it first. *cough*WMC*cough* It's not often that I post about my odd dreams, but this was just... interesting.

I dreamed that a female friend of mine and I were traveling a long distance by bike. I got held up at an intersection where my parents and grandmother happened to be. They invited me to come shopping with them at the mall. Some guy starts bothering me and I curse him out in front of my mother, which make me feel kinda bad. So we go to the mall and look at formal dresses. I go off on my own and run into this shopkeeper around my age with long blond hair in a braid. He leads me to where there's this dangerous woman in an alcove behind an elevator. So I slap my hands together and start using alchemy ala Ed in FMA. I raise a glass wall in front of the alcove, which fills with water. Then I raise a stone wall in front of that. Realizing she may be able to escape through the elevator, We run into it and I seal her side off. It's a fight. I'm not sure if she was an alchemist herself, but was unable to transmute to escape or what. Either way, she was a very dangerous threat that had to be contained. I go check on my family, then come back to seek comfort from blond braid guy. Later I'm sitting with some other girls in dresses and they ask me if I actually care about this guy. To which I reply I do. But I realize I really have to get going and am trying to figure out where my parents have parked my bike when I wake up.

Weird. What's with the Full Metal Alchemist overtones? Besides, Al's much cooler than Ed anyway. *shakes head* Well I guess in addition to flying I've now performed alchemy in a dream. That's kinda cool.

Do You Know Me?
Monday, February 28, 2005 -|- 02:57 a.m.

Yes, I have succumbed to it. How much do you know about me and my geekdom? Find out on this quiz.

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They Should Be Glad It's Not November
Saturday, February 26, 2005 -|- 05:24 p.m.

Had an odd experience when I was leaving for work on Thursday. But first, I have to set up the situation a little bit. See, I live in a neighborhood where the land behind me is a preserve of sorts. There are limestone caves and wild turkeys or so I'm told back there. There also pipelines that cut a perpendicular blank swath through the neighborhood as well. One being on the other side of my next door neighbor. So I backed out of my garage on Thursday and I see turkeys in that blank space on the other side of my neighbor's front lawn. I back up down the road to get a better look, and sure enough, there are 12, count 'em 12, turkeys just kind of hanging out. I'd heard there were such things back there, but I'd never expected to see them. They're lucky it wasn't November and I didn't have a gun. Well I think the HOA might have something to say about me firing a gun in the street, no to mention the police. Bow and arrow maybe? Either way, I think I need more target practice if I actually planned on hitting anything. ^.^; Who wants to pluck all those feathers anyway.

I've been on a rather girly kick lately. Buying makeup and experimenting with different eyeliners... Which is weird for me because unless it's a special occasion I don't really wear makeup. Oh sure, I know how to wear it, it's just most of the time it's too much hassle to mess with. Besides, who would I care to impress at work? It's all old ladies. I'm not a really girly girl, but I'm not anti-girly either. I like pink. The other day I even bought jewelry and a purse. I almost never carry a purse. It's just one more thing to worry about and potentially forget somewhere. But girls' clothes are made with the assumption that you have a purse if you want to carry something. Pockets are optional and not always big enough to carry anything. It's an odd kick, but I might as well enjoy it. Who knows, maybe next I'll be buying skirts. Hey, that doesn't sound half bad.