The Daily Adventures of Mercat

I have created a tumblr.

Consider this my resolutions for 2010:

To be healthier; eat better and get in shape more.

Journal more personally and perhaps protect my identity a bit more than I am generally wont to; thus, the tumblr. I think most links will be posted there unless I get a lot of protest? Idk, maybe I will post daily summaries of what's happening over there.

Can I get your opinions on that?






ALSO I totally bought the Indiana Jones puzzle game on my ipod. OMG. I love it. Totally worth $4.

Well, they didn't get the shipment of laptops in. Boo.

However, I started working on my personal wiki today, which I am really excited about. I feel like I finally stumbled on a good way to organize reference links for myself, organize project notes, that sort of thing. I'm debating whether or not I want to include things that are personally important to me, sort of an extension of my blog, or just leave it for personal reference. I don't know... I mean, for example, mom and I were trying to remember all the words to Dr. Seuss' ABC's today (we used to have the whole thing memorized). Is that something I should build a page for? I mean, I don't need to know that, and there's not much else I could put there. So... I dunno.

Thoughts? Anyone else use a personal wiki to get organized?

I'm kind of addicted now, even though it's a pain in the ass to change visual things and there's no way to visually separate the table of contents from the rest of the page. Fnargl.

Also there's no complete way of organizing links by tags... But I can get pretty close. And if not, I can always throw some words in the description and search for them later, hopefully that should work.

This is looking to be a good week.

Firstly, I have a HUGE backload of posts I've been meaning to make (since January) with all the Hawaii updates, too. That's gonna have to wait because you know what I just spent the last five hours doing? This:

(Secondly)I think you all should read this link about Anonymous and Scientology. It's just the beginning. Fascinating. Hilarious, but unforunately memes don't translate well to real life protests (MINUS the Guy Fawkes masks).

ALSO? There are ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS until INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is released. In celebration, starting tomorrow, I will post EVERY SINGLE ONE of the hundred-day countdown with some interesting piece of trivia or information.

Also!!!! THE TRAILER COMES OUT THURSDAY (with Spiderwick) I am so excited you have no idea. Fuck Valentine's Day, I have more important things to worry about. Like studying history for my two tests Friday so I can see this movie on Thursday and then watch the trailer online Friday a million jillion frillion times.

SO. My huge epic post of catching-up-ness is still forthcoming. My sincere apologies. Anonymous and Indiana Jones have taken over my life. Happy V-day to meeee! =D

So... here's the deal. This girl has two severe medical conditions that care for is outside her means. She's not trying to raise money-- she wants people to download a simple text file. If she gets 5 million downloads, the website claims they will give her the money she needs for medical care. You can click up to once per day per IP address--but that means you can click every day, not just once.

Unfortunately (if you read the details on the site it explains better) her condition got suddenly worse and her hopes to get all the downloads are not going as planned.

So I'm passing this on to people--already joined the facebook group and sent invites to everyone--but here's the page; please click at least once, I'm trying to click every day. =)

Here is the main website with explanation and everything and here is the direct link. Feel free to spread it around!

Yes, today is Day of the Dead, and All Saints' Day, I believe. Or maybe that's tomorrow, and today is All Souls' Day, I can't remember. So much for gradeschool.

Anyway, I usually do a holiday post, but it hasn't been the best of times lately (bombed a math test yesterday...not good...), so I've got some stuff for you today. It's also not my traditional HUGE HOLIDAY LINKSPAM du ENTERTAINMENT, but, you know, I don't really feel like scrounging up stuff from the depths of the internet. So I'm working with what I've got.

Here is a short halloween toon that I very much enjoy, simply because it is an amalgam of two very different things, which makes me very happy, haha. http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2100110407
(The link where I got it from: http://community.livejournal.com/halloweenland/110953.html?view=189545#t189545)

And some really cool pumkins... scroll down towards the end of the original post to see what I'm talking about: http://community.livejournal.com/halloweenland/115365.html

Um...nothing for Dia de Los Muertos, lo siento. I'm really feeling the colors, too, looking for that nice orangey thing happening, yeah. I also ganked a cute kitty picture from Yahoo's Halloween page yesterday, but I don't feel like uploading to photobucket. I know, I'm lazy. I'm also in a bad mood.

OH OH OH, I know! The party last night: drinking Jones Soda, Holiday flavor: Candy Corn. Blech. It's sulphuric yellow. Courtney and I decided it's My Little Pony Urine. (I don't know where we got that. She said "my little pony" at the same time I said "toxic urine" and...yeah.) And then we watched The Haunted Mansion, which is good for mockery and way to predictable. (I called it SO. MANY. TIMES.) However, it IS better than the flop it was made out to be, and I recommend it. And here is more Halloweeny that I have had stored away for ages: http://www.hauntedportraits.com/Haunted-Mansion-Blueprints.htm

I promise when the next holiday I'm updating specially for, I will try harder and actually not be messy with links and all, but, meh, whatever.

Ok, so now RANT MODE, FULL SPEED AHEAD. I know campus is trying to get people to register early for Christmas on Campus and adopt little kids. It's really nice. But playing TSO's Christmas stuff BLASTINGLY LOUD on the plaza and "CHRISTMAS IS JUST 36 DAYS AWAY!" is pissing me off, majorly. I'm about to go stand out there with a sign that says: "What happened to Thanksgiving?" Seriously. OVERCOMMERCIALIZATION. I saw the first Christmas stuff about a month ago (Christmas catalog!), but I don't watch TV anymore, so I have no idea about commercials. It's disgusting. If you want to shop ahead, just do it! You don't need Super Duper Christmas Palooza in July to buy gifts for people, dear God. All this ruins my Christmasy mood, and I'm not referring to the fact that I'm angry now. I'm talking about how hyped it gets, and by the time Christmas rolls around... I have no good feelings left. I'm ALWAYS left feeling empty now. And I hate them for it. Add to that the fact that we weren't home for Christmas last year (Hawaii...nice but hot home, and no snow) nor will we be this year (FUCKING COLORADO, I FUCKING HATE YOU), and the lack of decorating and tree therefor at home... and blah. It sucks. Maybe I will buy those Christmas tights though, although not being in uniform has caused a sharp drop in the amount of bright tights/socks and jewelry I wear. Pfft. Goddamn commercialization, you're ruining my life, honestly.

In other, much perkier news, I think I'm going to get a beta fish. Some of my friends getting into Beta Beta Beta are selling them for $10 with a tank and food, so I think I'll go for it. I always feel kind of isolated in my room, so, you know by the end of the year, I'll be the crazy lady who talks only to her fish.

So I have to start thinking of good names and all...hmmmm.

HALLOWEEN/DAY OF THE DEAD-Y LOVE TO ALL!

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OK, so I was going over my few last entries to see if I'd already linked some of these I've had sitting around, and I re-read the thing about the guys last Friday.

LOL, JAMES STILL HASN'T TALKED TO ME. Oh well, that's his own damn fault and I already explained myself. His loss if he doesn't get it.

So...lunch. WTF, THIS APPLE SMELLS LIKE A PUMPKIN. And not in a good pumpkin-pie-y way, the carving-a-gourd/squash smell.

So, linky linky! These are extremely entertaining: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html This one is my favorite:

It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon

Aaaaand, this is very entertaining, and I have a new phrase for when I get angry, too: http://www.devilducky.com/media/52401/

This site is creeeeeepy: http://www.preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com/ (Makes me want to go visit.)

Hmm, what else. Let's see, we decorated our hall like CandyLand for the little kids to come trick-or-treating. It actually looks pretty cool, rather than lame like I thought it would. The guys on the second floor, though, they were hard-corps haunted hallway, makde 300 people cry, one person twisted their ankle and another passed out. Not cool, IMO. I hope they don't win (hallway contest)... we were supposed to be giving little kids candy, not making them shit their pants! Anyway. The ninja count was severely higher than the pirate count (about 10 ninjas, 3 pirates IF you count Candice!), but I suppose we just don't need as many to get the job done. Also, cold=pirates, remember FSM? Yeah, lol.

Remind me later to show you guys just why my physics prof is insane. Just remind me.

Some other stuff I've accumulated in notes on my desktop:
"I love that I went to Carroll. I am listening to the people in my math class-- and I don't know if they went to public school or private school-- but they were listing off books they read in class, and all but two I'd read, and one of those was one Hemmert had us do presentations on.

Also, they apparently don't know the difference with the authors of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

Stupid Bronte sisters. I may hate them, but I read the books.

…I really need to go back and finish Gone With the Wind..."

"Hoooooly shit. So there's a couple of Berry Scholars sitting here talking about how they don't want to pay for the Daytona trip to go get drunk, because, hey, they do that every week here!

I fucking hate the Berry Scholars." Yeah, I'm a tad bitter on that one. But PLEASE... I FUCKING HATE STUPID PEOPLE. Especially when life is easy for them, which it seems all the stupid people have been having perfectly acceptable lives lately, and all the people who care are getting screwed left and right. *sigh* It's been a bad two weeks, can you tell?!

Yeah, I think that's all for now.

Man, this is weird. Having no resources, really, to finish a good Halloween costume, I REALLY am ready for Christmas. I'm not even kidding. It's a really weird mood.

Although the snow on Monday was unacceptable...lol. My music teacher used to say we'd get hyper when it was going to snow, and lately I've noticed when I'm anxious... I'm in a Christmasy mood. Hopefully my holiday cheer won't disappear like it did last year (Christmas came, and, uh, it's over?), or like it seems it's going to with Halloween (no costume...missing the POD party for MSBA finals... yes guys I love you more than costumes *sigh*).

Aaaaaaanyway. In the meantime: 29 days! Auuugh! Auugh! Panic panic panic! At least I practiced last night for....erm...almost 30 minutes on one of the songs and it sounded pretty good. Now if I can just get my range up, and speed all the music up...whee...

A slight linkspam and minor ranting, because I don't feel like going all out ranty at the moment. I'm soooo tired.

This is why grammar is important; not the only reason, but one: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/15789218.htm

This is tres cool. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_sc/cloak_of_invisibility

Last night was so much fun going to the Carroll game, and with Sou not there Edgar didn't care about us hanging out IN the band. So the second half, Jacob was there and he and I sat with the band, and I also saw Pat and Angie and James and a lot of other people from my class. Stupid Alter beat us though, lol, and Mr. Wally took away the butchered Spirit Tree... Oh, and they had extra security on the Victory Bell, and took the clapper out. It was nuts with all the people, too. And then going to the movie afterward was awesome-- we saw Man of the Year. MattE, Fischer, Domer, and VonNeumann and I went. Poor Johnny wasn't allowed to go, but he really needs it. I think he's in major depression.

So yay ranty time. I don't know if my guy friends are idiots or what. But anyway, they INSIST on mocking me, and then turn around seriously and be like "why did you cuss me out? I just wanted to come see you." And I was like... seriously? You're that shallow? I know that YOU know you're getting on my nerves when you do that. I'm not pretending, I'm not (EVER) flirting with you. I HATE you most of the time because of your stupid attitudes. I don't even know why I hang out with you. I try to be nice but when you're so idiotic... plus I am slightly depressed and tired today, and I kind of snapped. But STILL... WHY DON'T YOU GET IT?! I try not to think of males as stereotypically stupid, AND THEN EVERY TIME I SEE YOU, YOU PROVE YOU ARE.

Just... wtf. To all of you. I'm not hating you for my entertainment, you know.

*sigh* It's guys like you who have made me lose faith in your gender. =^-.-^=

Allright, here's a nice post full of links again. I know... you all probably don't click on them at all, but they also serve as bookmarks for me. Every once in a while I like to go back and look at the random shit that keeps me entertained. Feel free to be sharing yours as well, I'm such an information whore. Why do I spend so much time online? Because I'm generally learning about something. Yeah, I'm weeeeeird like that.

Have I mentioned that I love Billy Joel? Especially this song. (The movie's not too bad either, not as bad as Uptown Girl... that one's slightly creepy.) I'm also on a Billy Joel kick because we're playing his stuff for POD (Movin' Out, Uptown Girl, Tell Her About Itand Honesty)... and my CDs are at home! So I was forced to search YouTube, because I can't seem to find any other sites that actually play music. Phooey. Anyway, beside "Only the Good Die Young," this is my top Billy Joel song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuxBL6mpfCs&NR

THE FUCK, YOU ASSHOLES. There is already a list for the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, as well as the Seven Wonders of the Natural World, and many others. This was the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, not the world in general. This makes me extremely pissed off, because this makes for a lot of uneducated folk who are now just getting stupider. GodDAMN. YOU PEOPLE ARE GONNA FUCKING KILL ME SOMEDAY.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061017/od_nm/britain_stonehenge_dc

Let's review. At my gradeschool, when I graduated, my class was not allowed to play on the jungle gym, nor play kickball, football, or four-square. You couldn't bring balls, yo-yos, mini-skateboards (the finger ones), pokemon cards, or tomagotchis to recess. Oh, and we weren't allowed to play with the jumpropes, either, and you weren't allowed to sit on the curb and do nothing. When my sister graduated, you couldn't touch anyone (because, according to our retarded principal, "touching leads to hugging, hugging leads to kissing, and kissing leads to other things"), you couldn't play with anyone not in your class, you couldn't play with anyone not of your gender, and the rules I stated above still applied. The more I learn, the more I hate St. Brigid. Really, I didn't learn much there, and what I do remember the most was not pertinent to a specific class. Fuck you, Sister Lois, fuck you. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_fe_st/playground_tag_ban_3 (Honestly, one of the best things I learned was how to skip school. Up to fourth grade I got very good at it, then decided to stop. I brought a bag of cereal with me to school and then when I asked to go to the nurse (who would tell you lie down), I would chew it up and spit it out in the toilet. It fucking worked, too.)

A link from my dad. All I can say is. Awwww... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0odyrIqyk

This would be totally totally awesome in a haunted house if you made the makeup a bit more realistic (and by realistic I mean if someone who does stage makeup or cosplay makeup does it. Because I HATE childish, cheap, or trashy costumes. They have become the BANE of my existence.) http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/costume_entrystatue/ (Also, these are awesome: http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/costume_contest_cage/ http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/costume_contest_chameleon/ http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/costume_contest_egyptian/ )

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For band geeks, and those who appreciate randomness, this is extremely hilarious: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html

Also, I wish I could do this, in reality. American architecture generally sucks. Lack of public art in America also generally sucks. http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/

My arm hurts (flu shot). Got my email from a PR member today (w00t). So. Hopefully things are looking up for awhile.

Aye, 'tis true, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Most unfortunately for myself, the professors are hitting hard this week and it does not bode well for me mateys. No time t' make sure my crew was in tip-top condition, no grog, although I've been wearing me good pirate gear today.

Livejournal is also celebrating such a wonderful day as this, with ships, Pirate!Frank, mateys, and your very own Captain's Log. I do feel, though, that this lack of piratical nature today is simply exhaustion, but I swear t' keep up pirattitude year-round.

P'rhaps some pirate flashcards next time...

And here be the day's plunder for the crew to split amongst themselves:

www.iheartpluto.com

http://www.glumbert.com/media/okgo

http://www.glumbert.com/media/cattoilet

http://www.glumbert.com/media/sneeze

Also, I'm trying t' think of a name for the ship, right beaut she is. Something t' do with a conch, I'm thinkin'... input (as well as spectacular modifiers) is welcome!

And here's a little more pirate for ye: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5479037.html

Very good advice and some you'd be apt to listen to, unless you want to walk the plank and meet Mister Davy Jones.