1. Skipping someone's wedding so I don't have to come up with something to wear.

2. Feel bad about not visiting my grandmother. I kind of hope we can bring here to Florida for a visit instead. She'll like the warm weather. My mom hates talking to her, though, so she probably doesn't want to get her over here. (sidenote: I live in constant fear of the day I'll talk to my mother the way she talks to hers, and not feel bad about it at all.)

3. Had an idea about decorating my parents' living room. Am pleased with myself because I'm usually not good at making things look nice. On a related note, I comepletely forgot (until literally a few seconds ago as I was typing this) that I wanted to rearrange the furniture in my room. I feel like I need to sort through my things and get rid of some first, though. It's pointless.

4. Am thinking of changing major. This makes me feel like a failure. I'm in my fifth fucking year of college. What is my life, seriously.

5. Go to your nearest library and read The Invention of Hugo Cabret. NOW. I don't care that much about the movie, if I felt like blowing $10 on a ticket that week I'd probably see the Muppets one and rent Hugo a few months later, but READ THAT BOOK OMG.

6. I like low-brow television. (Is that really Patrick Stewart? It's Wikipedia time. *furrows eyebrows*

TIME FOR LINKS

7. http://thebloggess.com/ is worth a bit of time. It's entertaining and she links a lot of other things.

8. I found http://hypergogue.net/ while trolling around for education-related blogs. It's not really education-centered (and it's not just a blog), but a lot of the posts tie in and/or mention it.

The post was all right, but I enjoyed this comment more.

http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/7549989.html?thread=171536421#t171536421

full_metal_ox
This is where I get to play the Old Fogey on the Porch: one reason that you're not particularly aware of cyberpunk is that you, as someone born circa 1990 (to go by your userinfo) will have grown up soaking in it--your media world will always have included such dramatic conventions as the digital strings and slow-motion action scenes pioneered by The Matrix, and things like the ubiquity of online communication and the resultant underground cultures and economies are cyberpunk tropes that have pretty much come true.

Another telling cultural marker I've noticed is the new social acceptibility of cybernetic enhancement; no doubt you've seen all those images of Wounded Warriors (a recent, and far more romantic, term than "disabled veterans") sporting their prosthetic body parts as a mark of honor rather than Body Horror (which also ties into the steampunk penchant for prostheses as a fashion statement.) Consider also the transhumanist imagery in Droid's advertising campaign; the prospect of viral robotic transformation is presented here as empowering and to be welcomed--which is a helluva shift from the portrayal of the Borg and the Cybermen seeking to assimilate humanity into their uniform soulless horde.

Tags: found it on metaquotes

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/ristretto-young-barista/?smid=tw-nytimesstyle&seid=auto

Too many magazines.

Jen, your wedding invitation came in the mail! The date's looming and after many months my search for an outfit has proven fruitless.

The stationery was pretty. Dark blue! With a ribbon! & matching print in the envelope. (Also, Jen's handwriting is the same. :D)

Also, my phone apparently has a field in the contacts where one can make a note of a person's anniversary. So Jen's wedding anniversary shall be the first event indicated in my phone.

Mood: distressed
Music: I'm watching "The Godfather, Pt. II"

I'm up to my usual nothing, by the way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_sc/climate_disappearing_nations

Found old saved icons from high school. Awesome.

finance.yahoo.com/news/Opt-Out-of-a-Body-Scan-Then-nytimes-3016411705.html

We live too close to the equator.

But it was cool outside today.

I want to read endlessly without corresponding online labor.

I also want to go on long road trips (the kind where you actually get out of the car, not drive nonstop like you have a train to catch across the country).

I want peaches. But not to eat them.

I want to learn everything about bicycle mechanics. And then go on a tweed ride. LOL

I don't want to be 21.

Music: Michelle Branch (<3 middle school)

Leaving town tomorrow. Back on August 16. WTF long trip.

My parents got married in 1988.

So I got a new haircut which I really like, but I'm starting to dread the hairfixing ritual which will become a daily requirement.

I'm so bad at being a girl.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_livingstone_letter

Mood: drained

Where did it go?

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/05/11/42-essential-3rd-act-twists/

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/cambodias-jungle-woman-rochom-pngieng-flees-back-to-wild/19496441?icid=main|hp-desktop|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fcambodias-jungle-woman-rochom-pngieng-flees-back-to-wild%2F19496441

I'm missing my vase from LPA, the one I use to store cables. So all my cables are gone, too. I was very careful with it when we moved, but I haven't seen it in a month and I'm upset.

Also I'm missing several of my books.

I try not to whine about this stuff, but when my things disappear, I don't know how they go missing, and I never find them.