Here's the link to the old Livejournal, Blackswanelder. Just a little bit of history repeating.
September 11th, 2006
I've finally gotten a paid LJ account, and shifted all friends over that. I'm going to abandon Blackswanelder and switch to my primary handle, SallyDammerung. So if you're still interested in my yammering, please add that name to your friends list. I'm keeping Blackswanelder, since I've got a fuckload of old entries on there. It's pretty much exactly the same as Blackswanelder- fuschia vendetta, librarian themed, the works. But it'll be fun to practice CSS. So yeah. Do me a favor and look to Sally.
The new Livejournal
The new Livejournal
What the hell did I buy from Ohio? I don't think I know anyone in Akron... I'm confused now.
September 9th, 2006
There's some damn interesting bird behavior going on lately. Several birds that I don't usually see around here have been around, and have been braver than usual. The hummingbird I saw yesterday zipped up to my classroom window this morning, which is odd, because there aren't any flowers up here on the third floor. A tiny little bird (some sort of finch) hopped around staring at me today. I gave him a little bit of pita bread, but he didn't seem to want it. Maybe he's a non-pita eating bird. There was a pair of birds yesterday, buff colored, the male with a little topknot, eating berries off a tree. There's a hawk that lives around here, but I haven't seen him this semester (he, or possibly she, would pick off the occasional squirrel).
It's always important to pay attention when birds start getting quirky. I'm not so worried right now- it's around migrating south time- but they are being awfully friendly. The hummingbird in particular is an odd occurrence. The question is: What are they trying to say? I haven't read tarot in months. Maybe I need to check my messages.
Yup- looked it up. The hummingbird is a messenger, which means I have to check my metaphysical voicemail. All indicators point to good news, but if there's something I need to do, I need to know about it.
So as was mentioned in Jacky-boy's journal, discussion has of late occurred about spawning, and the general consensus between the two of us is that having kids would be better than not having kids.
Oh, this woman absolutely rocks my socks. She found out her fiance was cheating on her, so she called the wedding off and turned reception into a charity benefit. Remind me to try and think of her next time I'm tempted to feel sorry for myself.
I know most people, if not all, on my Friendslist don't know from/care from Death Note, but this is a bitchin' quiz. I am apparently very firmly L, and firmly an INTP.
It's always important to pay attention when birds start getting quirky. I'm not so worried right now- it's around migrating south time- but they are being awfully friendly. The hummingbird in particular is an odd occurrence. The question is: What are they trying to say? I haven't read tarot in months. Maybe I need to check my messages.
Yup- looked it up. The hummingbird is a messenger, which means I have to check my metaphysical voicemail. All indicators point to good news, but if there's something I need to do, I need to know about it.
So as was mentioned in Jacky-boy's journal, discussion has of late occurred about spawning, and the general consensus between the two of us is that having kids would be better than not having kids.
Oh, this woman absolutely rocks my socks. She found out her fiance was cheating on her, so she called the wedding off and turned reception into a charity benefit. Remind me to try and think of her next time I'm tempted to feel sorry for myself.
INTP You scored 80% introversion, 92% intuition, 71% thinking, and 42% judging! |
ABOUT THE TEST This personality test is heavily based on the Kiersey Sorter. In essence, it measures your personality across four variables: Introversion-Extraversion, Intuition-Sensing, Thinking-Feeling and Judging-Percieving. There are both positive and negative attributes to each of the traits. Introversion-Extraversion: Generally, people who score high on "introversion" are reserved, quiet people who keep to themselves whereas people who score low on "introversion" are outgoing, friendly people who are extraverts. YOUR RESULTS Stats: Approximately 4% of population. DN characters with this type: L. In a nutshell: "A love of problem-solving." Desciption: Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others. The category write-ups displayed here are not entirely my own; some of this info has been taken from personalitypage.com and some from changingminds.org, both of which are excellent sources of information about personality types. The test questions came in part from Please Understand Me II, another excellent source of information about personality types. Finally, if you'd like an incredibly detailed essay on your personality type, try typelogic.com who have a serious level of detail for anyone wanting to know more about this subject. The Deathnote pics were made by me using scans by TOWNL and from deathgod.org. Thanks to LateNiteSlacker and Uchiha_Shadow for helping me categorize the various characters.
Want see who else you might have been, or what types the other DN characters are? For your own personal information... Light Yagami And typewise: ESFP | ESFJ | ESTP | ESTJ | ENFP | ENFJ | ENTP | ENTJ | ISFP | ISFJ | ISTP | ISTJ | INFP | INFJ | INTP | INTJ Thanks for taking my test, I hope you enjoyed! |
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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I know most people, if not all, on my Friendslist don't know from/care from Death Note, but this is a bitchin' quiz. I am apparently very firmly L, and firmly an INTP.
September 7th, 2006
Which Neon Genesis Evangelion Character Are You? |
 You are Gendo Ikari, you have a plan for most things, and seek it ruthlessly. Losing your wife to a machine, abandoning you son, killing those in you're way is your style. You don't want to feel pain so you close your self off to the world. Try and be a little nicer to others, in the end you might just get it right. Take this quiz!  Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code |
Bah- I'm not Gendo, I'm Kaworu. But that wasn't an option, so I guess I'll take Gendo. I'm sure I'll fuck up my kids too.
In any old case. Today was one of the oddest days I've had in a while, in the one random random event after the other kinda way. Lots of birds, including a hummingbird. I found out I got a job in one of the libraries as a cataloging student assistant, which is absolutely bitchin'. I'd go into further detail, but right now, my sinuses feel like they're going to dribble out my ears.
September 5th, 2006
Oh, thank you YouTube! I love this Mac commercial parody video, but could never find it to show people. Here it is, in all its glory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pyTl2J
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pyTl2J
August 30th, 2006
School is fun. I love living in this town. I'm only about five minutes away from class by the free bus system.
Things are moving along at a fairly good clip, in my opinion, which means we're about three months behind in Jack's mind. We just bought the wedding rings today.
This one's going to be mine, six millimeters wide on my itty bitty size 4.5 finger.
This one's going to be Jack's, six millimeter's wide on this size 9.
This was as close as we could really come to yin and yang, but I like the way they go together. Titanium can't really be resized, so I reckon we can put links in between the rings we outgrow and make them into a chain to go around the Chrismukah shrub. I want to thank![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sarcazm, as she was a huge help with advising us about the realities of jewelry. Seriously. You might be surprised what you don't know about metal.
Things are moving along at a fairly good clip, in my opinion, which means we're about three months behind in Jack's mind. We just bought the wedding rings today.
This one's going to be mine, six millimeters wide on my itty bitty size 4.5 finger.
This one's going to be Jack's, six millimeter's wide on this size 9.
This was as close as we could really come to yin and yang, but I like the way they go together. Titanium can't really be resized, so I reckon we can put links in between the rings we outgrow and make them into a chain to go around the Chrismukah shrub. I want to thank
sarcazm, as she was a huge help with advising us about the realities of jewelry. Seriously. You might be surprised what you don't know about metal.August 24th, 2006
Oh, and thank you FDA. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/24/mo
Dude. The buses in my town are completely free. I didn't know that. I'm gonna save so much money.
August 19th, 2006
Dude. Capybaras. I want them wild and free in my state, damn it. It's warm and humid enough. They could roam south for the winter. Just... I think it's what we need.
Do they like kudzu? Cause that'd be perfect.
Do they like kudzu? Cause that'd be perfect.
August 18th, 2006
| You are Bettie Page |
 Girl next door with a wild streak You're a famous beauty - with unique look And the people like you are cultish about it |
This is what I get for breaking out the vinyl pants.
August 17th, 2006
You know, never discount the potential for unexpected reactions. I got my last tetanus shot on Tuesday, and damned if it didn't fuck me up. I woke up Tuesday night with a monster fever and essentially slept through the next two days, which sucked ass, since we're moving. I'm still a bit pathetic, but at least I'm capable of being vertical again.
The move is scary, but I think we'll manage.
Seriously though, next time, we are hiring professionals. People skilled in the ways of moving couches and beds. People possessed of upper body strength less feeble than mine.
The move is scary, but I think we'll manage.
Seriously though, next time, we are hiring professionals. People skilled in the ways of moving couches and beds. People possessed of upper body strength less feeble than mine.
August 15th, 2006
Dreamed of roller skating last night. I was wearing the wrong skates though. Rollerblades instead of quads. But it was neat. I was fast.
August 14th, 2006
Behold, the t-shirt wishlist:
Edited and reposted 08/14/06-
The Devil Creature hoodie from Dead Zebra. This would emphasize the fact that I'm bad news.
The Angel Creature hoodie from the same. Because I am occasionally good news.
The Aerodynamically Curvaceous tee from Questionable Content.
The Books Rule tee from Scary-go-Round.
The "I am Your Secret Scary Friend" tee, also from SGR.
The Cthulu tee from MacHall.
The Australian Indoor-Rules Quidditch tee, also from MacHall.
The Twisp and Catsby tee from Penny Arcade.
The "Mister Period and the Bad Boys of Punctuation" ringer, also from PA.
The "I love Hentai" tee from ThinkGeek. Cause I do, you know.
The Dirty American Devil" tee, also from ThinkGeek. Orange is so my color.
The "Person of Alcohol" tee, yet again from ThinkGeek. Because tacky cultural tourism combined with references to alcohol is my kinda party.
The Major Teacup Tee.
The Google is Ruining Everything Tee. Dude. I HAVE TO HAVE THIS SHIRT. Fuckery, if only I wasn't so ridiculously po'.
The Okay to Be You Tee.
The Landline's Revenge tee. I presently have no landline but am getting HELL OF FRUSTRATED wheneve rI try to call home and my fucking internet phone refuses to bloodyring. I think I may have to add a cell to my plan to just sit here at home, sharing my minutes, perpetually plugged in.
The Leeroy Jenkins Academy shirt. I have no idea what it says because the zoom is crap, but I'd pretty much be willing to wear this sight unseen.
The Pillowfight tee from Threadless. PURCHASED!
The Squirrel shirt. PURCHASED! Dude. Squirrels are bad news.
The Communist Party Tee. PURCHASED! Because even if I have to give up the red and yellow in favor of the blue and silver, I can still have a visual pun.
And soon, John Allison, real boy, will be re-releasing the Eggbert tee. My eggbert tee went missing after the Spain trip, and I'm amped beyond words. I may buy two. PURCHASED! TWICE!
The Fast Supper Tee. PURCHASED!
The Captain Awesome Tee. PURCHASED!
The Russel! How's Yer Ma? Tee. PURCHASED!
Now,if for some reason, you decide that you absolutely have to make me less nude, I wear a children's large, a mens as small as they get, and a medium in a women's fitted tee or hoodie. Just, um... putting that out there.
The t-shirt collection is expanding well. I should do a gallery at some point.
Threadless's $10 back to school sale is going on right now. If you need to be less nude, I highly recommend getting your butt over there. They only do the ten dollar sale a few times a year, and stuff sells out fast.
A la ka joinked from indigosoulflow. It's a quotes meme. You go to this page and go through random quotes till you find five that reflect who you are or what you believe. Theoretically one should tag five friends upon posting, but meh.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Muchof the social history of the Western world over the past three decadeshas involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Everyhuman being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't originalsin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has toleave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to loseeverything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his ownmaking, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage todo it. Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
indigosoulflow. It's a quotes meme. You go to this page and go through random quotes till you find five that reflect who you are or what you believe. Theoretically one should tag five friends upon posting, but meh. August 7th, 2006
I grow more nervous about the wedding. Yeep. It may be PMS partially, as I've been generally over emotional for the past couple days. Yeep nonetheless.
July 31st, 2006
Today was neato. I saw this orange thing in the sky, and as I looked more closely, it turned out to be a man in a parachute. It wasn't really a controlled fall though- he was gliding. I could kind of make out this industrial fan at his back. My boss told me he sits in a lawnchair and zooms around like that. I have no idea how he takes off.
I also saw a young man today with two different colored eyes. He may be a fairy. I'm not sure yet. If people's kids start disappearing and getting replaced with extra mischievous doppelgangers, I'll know.
I also saw a young man today with two different colored eyes. He may be a fairy. I'm not sure yet. If people's kids start disappearing and getting replaced with extra mischievous doppelgangers, I'll know.
July 28th, 2006
July 23rd, 2006
"There's nothing I could call this.
No architecture for the order of things.
When I sat and watched you sleeping,
before the trucks arrive,
boxed up your better life
I wrote you letters for a while.
Left to haunt this sad estate
In hollow walls and empty halls
When all I saw was
some doll that you'd abandoned.
So I crawled inside where the stitching held me tight
And hoped that you'd come back to find me sometime.
I hope that you'll forgive me for being so severe.
Your proximity was clouding my account of what was real here.
You're eight years old, I'm stuck inside the wall,
You always talk, but never hold me,
And I wish that you would ask me how I'm feeling,
There's so much I want to tell you about the way I'm disappearing
And so many years have past since that I left the house
I left a map to my new wall
You must have never found it.
And I heard that you got married
And I hope she helps you fall asleep these days...
...'cause I knew the ways, when you were eight.
You're not what I imagined you'd become when we were younger,
But I'm still in love with that one.
I've since found your parents' house and lived inside the walls,
And you don't ask about me when you call."
-The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, "Lisa" (Approximate lyrics, as I hear them- they're probably wrong.)
No architecture for the order of things.
When I sat and watched you sleeping,
before the trucks arrive,
boxed up your better life
I wrote you letters for a while.
Left to haunt this sad estate
In hollow walls and empty halls
When all I saw was
some doll that you'd abandoned.
So I crawled inside where the stitching held me tight
And hoped that you'd come back to find me sometime.
I hope that you'll forgive me for being so severe.
Your proximity was clouding my account of what was real here.
You're eight years old, I'm stuck inside the wall,
You always talk, but never hold me,
And I wish that you would ask me how I'm feeling,
There's so much I want to tell you about the way I'm disappearing
And so many years have past since that I left the house
I left a map to my new wall
You must have never found it.
And I heard that you got married
And I hope she helps you fall asleep these days...
...'cause I knew the ways, when you were eight.
You're not what I imagined you'd become when we were younger,
But I'm still in love with that one.
I've since found your parents' house and lived inside the walls,
And you don't ask about me when you call."
-The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, "Lisa" (Approximate lyrics, as I hear them- they're probably wrong.)