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I'll probably be off the grid for the next few days - going to AFW in Wichita for advertising Naka.

On a completely unrelated note, when is LJ going to stop celebrating its 10th birthday? That banner has been up for weeks. /sigh

Still alive, I promise! Working a full work week is still throwing me off all my Internet activities. I still lurk and read stuff every day, but don't usually have time/energy to post.

Yesterday was pretty fun - slept in til 9 (after staying up til midnight with ryltar and some of his family at their house), made some great progress on my steampunk capelet (needs some mods and beadwork before it's done), then had lunch at Ingredient and shopped around with ryltar for a present for his mama. Found something fun, then headed out to his best friend's place just outside Merriam city limits to blow stuff up.

We got there around 4, but people had already made a mess of the driveway and part of the street with all kinds of crazy stuff... and they went on until 10:30! ryltar bought a crazy amount of fun stuff, and lit most of it off while I sat and watched from my comfy lawn chair and had a Mike's for the first time in months (too expensive to justify most of the time, on my budget). One of the people there had a firecracker roll the size of a spare tire (no exaggeration!), and when they set it off it took more than five minutes to finish. Very glad I thought to bring earplugs. Oh, and my citronella candle, too - not a single bugbite after being outside for 6 hours. Yippee!

Today I slept till 9 again, so tomorrow is going to be Very Interesting with the readjusting. Plan to work more on steampunk, then direct a designer (ryltar's brother, hopefully) on what we want the Naka website to look like. Need to mesh art from two different artists and make it look all nicey nicey, and I bet he can do it extremely well (and hopefully quickly, I want that darned site up!). For tonight, another free meal at ryltar's parents' house - they're having more friends over they want me to meet, and celebrating his mom's birthday to boot, so I can give her my silly little present.

Over and out for now. :)

You are made of fail. Crowds are not scary.

Kthxbai.

There's a vintage treadle Singer on its original table (looks a lot like this) at my church's rummage sale, and it's in awesome condition and it's gorgeous and WE WANTS IT, MY PRECIOUS!!!

If only I had a house. And $125. :(


On the plus side, I now have a tape player that works (mine died last week), a couple movies (don't have to walk up the stairs to ryltar's place to watch Moulin Rouge now), and some pretty beads for making myself some earrings for teh cheap (just need to buy the clipon/vice hybrid bases now).

Also, not dead - just tired out. Got puked on by the neffy-poo today in honor of my sis's birthday, hope she enjoyed the baby-free time.

Bedtime, methinks. *zonk*

Does anyone on my f-list in Lawrence have a big cooler? I need it for Saturday - ryltar and I are bringing tons of pop and food to the Naka-Kon reunion thingy. I really don't want to have to drive all the way to Olathe to pick up my sister's. :)

ryltar went insane again - I nao has Wrath and a 2 month game card (which runs out a couple days before my surgery, great timing). Played a bit this afternoon, probably will a bit more once ryltar, his bro, and his dad come back from a bike ride.


In other news, I cut my hair. It was getting so long that I tangled it up like crazy during the night and had to rip out some tangles because they would. not. come. undone.

Ta-dah!

It's layered in the back and tapers to a bit shorter in the front. I also bought some product that should give it a little more oomph and keep it from frizzing on a daily basis without making it sticky. The product cost as much as the haircut, but with tip it was under $30 total, so still not too bad. Plus, they have a money-back guarantee if I don't like the goop, so extra win.


I also broke down and bought a new bike seat. My old one made my butt fall asleep - not something you want on a bike ride. This one is a little larger and has a gel cusion. Woot!


Life in general is going ok. I'm getting more used to the full-time job thing (and the hour each way drive), so that's being a bit less stressful than it was a couple weeks ago. Still working hard on Naka stuff, the steampunk costume, and a bit of paid freelance work, so I'm well-occupied (especially with WoW! Yay!) when I'm at home.


BTW, if you're ever free on the weekends and want some company, give me a ring and we can do something. I need to see people other than ryltar more often. :)

Blatantly copypasta'd from adammmaker's LJ:

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President writes pass for 4th grader attending his town hall meeting with her father.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/11/president-issues-get-out-of-class-pass-to-10-year-old/

Read the brief article, watch the 3 minute video, it's funny, it's touching, and it shows one of the reasons we love this president.

I have 11 feet of hanging space in my closet... and it's getting crowded.


To justify myself, though, I hang up all my t-shirts and most of my jackets in that closet. And my 10 formals. (That last addendum didn't help my case at all, did it?)


Pix of the green velvet Victorian skirt when I finish the hooks and eyes, and hem the darned thing an extra 4 inches!

Voice recognition software is completely insane. It took me forever to get the program to learn how to say hello, and it doesn't like navigating browser windows.

Hopefully I can learn how to use it before I have my wrist surgery, otherwise will be very hard to write papers for my journalism classes.

I think the biggest issue is it keeps trying to click on random things, which is a big problem in Firefox. Especially if I'm dictating an e-mail - if I click away from the window, I lose everything I just dictated.

And I still can't figure out how I selected this user pic.

No, really. Does it?



I give you the Truly Victorian Grand Bustle. Because ryltar, Gentleman Adventurer, blows up far too many experiments for the Queen's taste, I've been assigned to be his personal ordnance officer - but that doesn't mean I can't do it in style.


To be continued with seven yards of luscious green velvet!

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I've only been at NK for 4 days, but I feel really great about the summer. When I showed up on Monday I had a nameplate at my HUGE cube (with fancy overhead compartments and everything), and it was also stocked with pens, paper, and other necessary office-type thingies. My phone was even programmed with my name. These guys (well, mostly gals) are really on the ball.

The first day was full of paperwork and name-learning, but on the morning of day 2 I was assigned to make a B2B best practices document for trade media, PR, customer relations, and engagement and then develop a media plan based on a HUGE research document for one of our big clients. I worked like crazy, and should finish that up on Tuesday if all goes well!

In terms of personality and appearance I think I fit in fairly well - all the account executives (which I'm essentially on par with) are blonde twentysomethings. (Which, of course, makes it harder to learn names. Sigh.)

All in all, it looks like it's going to be tons of fun, and tons of hard work. I really needed the weekend to recover, and I took as much advantage of it as I could. Here's hoping that it won't exhaust me too much!

Holy crapoly, I got straight As in all 6 of my classes this semester - and no pesky A-minuses to mess things up.

Cumulative college GPA is now 3.66.

I think I win.



In other news, ConQuesT was fun and tiring. Report on that and the internship later if I have enough energy after I go kayaking and bike riding with ryltar tomorrow. (Wish me luck, I've never paddled anything before!)

Item 1: I'm having surgery on my right wrist in August to relive pressure on both my carpal tunnel and Guyon's canal. Fortunately one cut can do them both. People lose an average of 10-15% grip strength from the surgery, and there's a 7% chance that the surgery won't help at all, but it's worth the risks. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use a computer much for 6-8 weeks after the surgery, although I've been told that Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software is really good so I'll be looking into that.

Item 2: Internship at NK starts on Monday. Wish me luck!

Item 3: Job at Aplus is gone for good as of today. We don't get enough copywriting clients for them to justify keeping me, so I don't have a job to go back to after my internship and surgery recovery.

Item 4: Anyone know of any part-time writing/editing positions in Lawrence that I should apply for this fall? I really can't afford not to work, even though I should be concentrating on my Very Last Year of college (ya, rly).

Anyone have any free ones they think I'd enjoy? I need something to listen to on the hour-long drives to and from work this summer, and so far all I have are The Screwtape Letters and a "Learn Japanese in your Car" series from adammaker.

Edit: freebies only, please. I don't really have money for subscription services like audible right now. ^^;

...but why do I have to get the strange injuries? 10 years of hand sewing, typing, mousing, and generally abusing my right wrist have culminated in a moderate case of Guyon's Canal Syndrome, which is kind of like carpal tunnel syndrome but more rare and trickier to operate on. And it looks like I'll probably need surgery this summer.

As if that weren't enough, I also have a mild case of carpal tunnel syndrome (which fortunately doesn't need to be operated on... yet).

Keep thinking those warm fuzzy thoughts for me. I'm going to need them.

Some friends of mine are selling theirs in North Lawrence.
http://hometownlawrence.com/realestate/detail/119339/

Went to the doctor yesterday about pain/numbness in my wrist. It's "probably carpal tunnel," and I "might be on track for surgery this summer." Good vibes my way, please - this is kinda freaking me out.

In happier news, I'm selling my soc textbooks on Amazon and one has sold (and shipped) already. Got a chocolate cherry scone and some rhubarb (not on fire, sadly) at the farmer's market, potting soil and vent deflectors (I hate being directly under a vent!) at Ace, a Spangler print at starstraf's garage sale which used to belong to graydown, and a spare swimsuit at the sale next door. Spent a bit much overall, but it was all at a good price and all stuff that I needed, more or less.

In other random news, the Star Trek movie is awesome - I didn't check my watch once, which I usually do two or three times during a movie. I'm not a Trekkie by any means, but I genuinely enjoyed the movie and am now more interested in watching some TOS for... backstory? Future story? Alternate reality story? Dunno. Anyway.

Off to go do some work on con stuff!

This gave me a chuckle today, so I thought I'd share it. Hopefully it gives you one too. :)

I decided to just look at how much plain black hoodies cost on froogle... and this little beauty was the first thing that popped up on the results!





A little flair, enough not to be boring if I don't end up decorating it. Yay!


And hooray for clearance - it was only $15 plus shipping. :D