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Jul. 22nd, 2009 @ 06:56 pm It hurt less than giving blood!
Current Mood: happy!
Not much to say that a picture can't cover:

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neurola
Jul. 14th, 2009 @ 11:30 pm (no subject)
It's Nessy, alive and well! Just dropping a note to anybody that happens to see this- I'm still alive, doing quite well for myself, and am basically just going to be chilling (and working) until the end of July. I got my tax returns, which means that I am SERIOUSLY living in luxury, COUNTING paying rent and food. That's even more so considering that I'm STILL working, uhuhuhuhu! Basically, I am sitting pretty on my pile of money.

Today I went and got a haircut, and now I look like this:
lj-cut for a hair-cut! )

And, in more exciting news, I am going to be in Brattleboro for the last week of July with my job! We're all headed down to canvass everybody FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH 8D so uh yeah. I'm looking forward to seeing people<3
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neurola
Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 12:38 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: WHAT
SO REMEMBER HOW I WAS CONVINCING MYSELF THAT MY SUMMER WOULDN'T SUCK


hahahahhahahahaha but no really it will be okay.

But basically, in the past month, I have discovered that I am homeless (as in, I got in the car and my mother said, "oh by the way we're couchsurfing with a friend of mine in Hanover now) and been wandering around up in Burlington with my mother. She's been in this program for uh, you know, homeless people, except the thing is she doesn't have enough money to rent an apartment or a room even. That's. Kind of why we're homeless in the first place. I lost my job at the gas station because- well, Hanover. Not so much "lost" as "surrendered it", but you know.

Soooo... yeah. I just got a job (somehow!!!) at VPIRG for the summer, and I'm looking at a shared apartment (with two guys) tomorrow, probably going to take it. HOW DO I PULL THESE CRAZY-ASS MIRACULOUS THINGS OUT OF MY ASS I DON'T EVEN KNOW

so hey guys, how is your summer.
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neurola
Dec. 13th, 2008 @ 01:22 am Camwhoring!
Sup guys! Just posting to

A:) Let you know I'm alive XD

B:) Post a picture of the hat I threw together today when I was bored!


It didn't turn out as well as I would have like it to, but oh well. I'm making a snail for my roomie tomorrow, so it'll be my second hat and a chance to improve!

C:) I'll be back in town by the 20th! SO SOME OF US SHOULD TOTALLY CHILLAX. TOGETHER. YES.
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neurola
Sep. 17th, 2008 @ 06:49 pm SUP
Sooo, in between classes and figuring out where to find jobs and making my Bridget cosplay, I found the time to take some pictures of my dorm room~<3

IMAGE HEAVY! Into the depths of the dorm~ )
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neurola
Sep. 6th, 2008 @ 01:06 pm (no subject)
SO GUYS GUESS WHERE I AM

yes that's right college.

If I can remember to, I'll make a teal deer post later, but this is my ULTRA-BRIEF posting concerning UVM:

  • The food is quite good. I'm the sort that dislikes major changes in what I eat, special occasions aside, so even the fact that the menu is mostly the same works for me.

  • The classes are distressingly easy. We have spent the past two bio and chem lectures going over what: molecules are, what the phases of matter are, types of bonds, and what matter is. This would all be very exciting and cool, but for the fact that none of it is new information. I can't wait until I have to actually study.

  • Campus is not big enough to bitch about but not small enough to ignore. That is: geez, walking sure is a pain, and riding your bike during certain hours just isn't practical due to all the PEOPLE.

  • Almost everybody in this school is like. Drunk. Constantly. I look on it as an easy way to gain a scholastic advantage, but inside am extremely displeased with this. Nobody's drunkenness has bothered us yet, but if it does, I will bitch.

    DONE<3
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    neurola
    Jul. 27th, 2008 @ 03:00 pm (no subject)
    I'm just making a quick and ridiculously breathless post to point out that- RIGHT NOW- NPR is playing like, folk-music renditions of all sorts of classic rock (I think that's what they're called) songs. We're talking "Stairway to Heaven" on a piccolo, "Bohemian Rhapsody" on like, an accordion? SOMETHING AMAZING CLEARLY WE MUST GIVE THESE PEOPLE MORE MONEY.
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    neurola
    Jul. 26th, 2008 @ 03:19 pm OH JAPAN
    So, since I know (minimal) Chinese, this enables me to navigate Youtube in Japanese (also minimally).

    This is great! I've found a lot of really cute, interesting, and amusing things.
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...I have also found three of the most bizarre videos ever to be made. This isn't a language gap thing (or at least, I hope not, because if so holy shit cultural exchange is doomed); these videos are just hilariously bizarre in any language. The upside of them being Japanese is that they're fairly well-animated and drawn.

    ON WITH MY FINDINGS OF THE WEEK:

  • This thing is... I'm not really into Reborn!, but since I hang out on 4chan I know enough about it (via osmosis and a little manga experimentation- bad trip, man, bad trip) to know, basically, who is who. It doesn't have any bearing other than that the guy with funny eyes and pineapple hair is Bad News, I think, and also called Mukuro which makes me think of Murkrow.
    This is the kind of video that you KNOW deep down in your gut had to come out of drugs, but the animation and graphics are of such reasonable/good quality that you have to admit that it actually took time. Which means somewhere in Japan the creator of this video is living a life filled with thoughts of... whatever this is.
    It's also painfully hilariously strange. Something about the moving arc of bunny-Mukuros really amuses me. I think it's the math nerd in me- I think of quadratic equations. Also the seductive-hip-swishing afro-cow-baby really tickles me. As in, I CAN'T WATCH FOR TOO LONG OR I START LAUGHING.

  • Who the hell makes these things? The video itself is fairly plain, but the fact that somebody actually made like, a song, and... and lyrics, and.... I'd almost say that somebody mistranslated it for the lulz, but you can hear that no, the lyrics correspond to the subs. Oh god. Maybe this is something about rape and childhoods, but I'm slightly terrified of this video. At the same time... it's really hypnotizing. *____* The little back-and-forth motion of Crashman is... man, I don't even know. And the silly little come-hither look he delivers to the audience at the start of the video just slays me. I also love Rockman/Megaman's terrified look partway through. It's a really simple video, but it's mostly all about the lyrics anyways. The really, really uhhhh interesting lyrics.
    ...I'll just eat a chicken biscuit and move on.

  • Another video with a catchy beat, this video is, as far as I can tell, based on a seriously old video game from Japan (duh). I wish I knew Japanese every time I watch this, simply because I can tell the lyrics are astonishingly silly. The song is. So. Catchy. God.
    This video has everything- Spiderman, a mock commercial, BDSM, and an Ultraman reference. The art is a little looser in quality compared to the other two, but I think it really suits the tone of the uhhh whatever this is. Oh, it also references Sailor Moon, in a way that's sure to make your (and the lead of the video's) hair stand on end. I kind of want to do play a kung fu game every time I watch this, but (thankfully) the feeling passes with the music.

    BONUS: I hate hate hate Haruhi Fucking Suzumiya or whatever her name is. Watched five whole episodes. Loathed every minute. However, the show has the best dance affiliated with it that I'VE seen in a while, and here's a Pokemon version of it. The art's a little wonky sometimes, but come on- Pikachu dancing. Pikachu shaking his hips. His little pikachu hips.
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    neurola
    Jul. 16th, 2008 @ 08:52 pm (no subject)
    BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW it's hot.

    That said, I HAVE EXCITING STORIES/NEWS FROM REAL LIFE:

  • Uh, firstly, I'm not dead. I bet you're all thrilled<3 but i swear to god if my mother bitches at me for being whatever she thinks i happen to be at the time one more time i am going to... do nothing, really. less than a month and a half now, though i still have to pack and get some stuff, etc....

  • KLJFDHKJHFK I have to get my immunization record turned in by the end of July for UVM. This isn't a problem except I'm mortally terrified of phones and talking on them. When my doctor heard that I was going to be in pre-vet studies, or pre-med if I didn't make it into that, she said that it would be "great" if I interned with her over the summer. COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED. My doctor is so cool. O______O

  • While looking over the forms for immunization, etc., I noticed that those going to medical school and nursing school have to get special immunizations. I hadn't really thought about it, but it makes sense. One thing that kind of made me go 'buh?' was the fact that mental illness wasn't one of the drop-down options in the family history section. Depression, yes. Schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.? Nope. Weird. I'd definitely want to know who was mentally ill in general rather than just who happened to be suicidal-on-purpose. I'm fairly sure that's super-politically-incorrect, but I'm feeling too ratty right now to care.

  • AT WORK THERE IS THIS FUGLY OLD DRUNK GUY THAT'S ONE OF THE CARETAKERS OF THE GRAVEYARD I GO THROUGH TO GET TO LIKE BASICALLY HALF MY TOWN. I FRATERNIZE WITH HIM BECAUSE IF I DON'T HE SPENDS HALF AN HOUR OR MORE IN THE STORE. OH YEAH I MEAN HE'S A CUSTOMER AT MY GAS STATION. THE POINT AND WHY I'M SCREAMING IS THAT I MADE THE MISTAKE OF TALKING WITH HIM NEXT TO THE LITTLE DEBBIE SHELF INSTEAD OF OVER THE NORMAL COUNTER (my coworker was running register and I was chilling) AND HE PUT HIS HAND OUT LIKE HE WAS GOING TO SHAKE SO I PUT MINE OUT TOO AND THEN

    THEN

    he kissed my hand

    i am still faintly scarred

    i washed my hand so fast

  • In my second job, which is basically summer camp with lots of painful farming thrown in (though I like hand-weeding and harvesting for Farmer's Market and the service sites, which is where we drag loads of veggies or just ourselves somewhere and DO SUM SHIT), I have gotten so tan. So tan. Seriously. You think farmer's tan is funny? I WILL MAKE YOU LOL.

  • It's oh god hot.

  • I get ridiculous amounts of free vegetables, though. Seriously. I took home three zucchini yesterday and would probably have had more but I'm home sick with the sniffles. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DRIBBLE ON PRODUCE.

  • ....I was sad, though, because Wednesday is my favorite day- to market, to market, and also lots of left-over veggies<3. Tomorrow is mentoring with the kids again, which is kind of a weird experience because even though I don't like kids that much, they really seem to like me. And cling to me. And listen to meeeee. Whatever. It works, and it means my workgroup gets to run around teaching kids stuff about plants instead of doing a work block. Yeah, Thursdays are my work group's slacker day, what can I say.

  • I don't get paid for my second job until about the end of this month (which really pisses me off but whatever... something about putting some of us into a backlogged database, boo) BUT I get my 4th of July paycheck tomorrow~<3 WHICH MEANS I WILL BE SUPER-RICH. *3* I'm planning to make a cool kind of quilt, but it needs stuffing, so I'm going to go down to Wally World (if it's not too hot) tomorrow WITH MAH MAD MUNNIEZ and buy a bag of stuffing.

  • Last bullet, I swear: When I do get my first paycheck for the farm job, I'm planning on getting a PSP with part of the money. I did the math and, with the extra time I always seem to pull for my slacker coworkers at my gas station, I'm working full-time. I kind of feel like it's a waste of money, but given how much love and use my DS has seen, I know it won't be. I feel guilty for spending so much money, but at the same time (er, once I pay my mother August's rent) I'm kind of going to HAVE a lot of money. Don't get me wrong- almost all of it's going into savings. But the portion I reserve for snacks, buying supplies for lunch, and ~fun money~ (about 1/4 of a check) can certainly go to something like a PSP.

  • sdkjfhksadjfdsfg I LIED THIS IS THE LAST BULLET okay so I got EXTRA~~~ scholarship money for school. Which means that I might be able to get a laptop with that ~~~extra~~~ money. *______* I feel kind of happy, and smart because all of my scholarships are merit-based, though many have need thrown in too. THE BIGGEST ONES ARE ALL MERIT-BASED THOUGH HOMG.
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    neurola
    May. 22nd, 2008 @ 08:00 pm Camwho- well, no, not quite....
    I got my digital camera today<3
    If I could take a picture of it, I would, but, eh, that's kind of impossible. So instead I went around taking pics of everything around me. I need to get a SD card so that I can hold more than seven pictures, but that will come next week, next payday. Yaaay.

    So, the pictures....? )

    So, anyways.... Uh, Shannie! I'm getting out of school soon, and I'm getting good at biking again, too, so if you can manage to get to your general store I can manage to get to you.
    My own work schedule right now is completely opposite yours, eheheheh.... =__=;;
    Once school ends, I'm sure we'll be able to see each other a little more, though I'm taking up a second job and possibly, if I can manage it and find one, a third. EVEN SO we'll totally hang out. ::promises::
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    neurola
    May. 19th, 2008 @ 05:23 pm (no subject)
    Current Mood: cold
    Guys. I found the best. Fanfic. Ever.

    Lesson

    It has everything: stream-of-consciousness male use of the word uke and seme in a totally serious context, English as a second language to a hilarious degree, surprise buttsex...
    Guys, you just kind of have to read it. You don't even need to know the context of this thing (hell, I do and I didn't even know what was going on) to get it.
    This is one of those amazing cases where it fails so hard that it wins. O______O

    Oh, and: I'm not dead! I got a full scholarship to UVM based on need and merit! My mother is more insane than ever, but at least I have a set date when I'll be gone!
    LIFE IS MANAGEABLE FOR NOW.
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    neurola
    Mar. 17th, 2008 @ 07:16 pm (no subject)
    For the first time in a long while, things are going pretty well for me. I got into a school, and now we have an apartment, too.

    It's going to cost money, obviously, and because of that I'll be giving my mom $200 each month for bills and rent, now, too, but I don't mind at all.

    The apartment, for those of you who know the town, is on Pellett Street. Yes, the one-way street that goes up to Highland Street. YES MADAM C I AM NOW AN EVEN SHORTER DISTANCE FROM YOU THAN BEFORE. I am going to be moving... three blocks. Four if you count the two sides of the curb as... well, two. The garage will be perfect for my bike, and I can still get to school and work lickity-split. We just spent three hours washing the place out- the previous residents were crazy pregnant drug addicts that were also, apparently, filthy. I had to scrub the floor of the living room twice, and then do a light runover with a mop after.

    We only have one neighbor, and he's downstairs and cool as a pie. He's awesome. He's an old dude, and likes biology and animals and woodworking. It's nice to have such a cool neighbor guy.

    I really like our new apartment. I'm almost worried to get too happy, because I can still see things going wrong somehow. It's been two and a half years since we had a place of our own, and before that... actually, I don't think I've ever really lived someplace peaceful. It's always been filled with strife. I guess nobody really knows, but when we moved from Maine, the place we had lived in was, well... It was the kind of place that makes me not afraid to walk down Elliot Street at night. A lot of bad things happened there, and especially to us, so.

    And now I'm going to be living in the kind of place that is... a pleasure to move into.
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    neurola
    Mar. 8th, 2008 @ 07:53 pm (no subject)
    Current Mood: ditzy
    Tags: ,
    姐姐'll be happy! I started watching Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro.
    It's so funny, especially when he's domestically abusing smooshing Yako. I also really like Akane<3

    Neuro himself reminds me of a somewhat gentled Alucard, from the expressions to the behavior. YES I SAID GENTLED ALUCARD IS ::ROLLS AWAY FROM::

    Blah blah blah Neuro blah Yako blah blah blah stuff... )

    HOLY CRAP WTF I NEVER WRITE LONG THINGIES ABOUT ANIME/MANGA
    i feel kind of weird. like, obsessive?
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    neurola
    Feb. 29th, 2008 @ 08:30 pm <3<3<3!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I GOT INTO UVMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~

    YES YES YES YES

    ::breathes::

    The rest of my life is kind of teeter-totter right now, but whatever. I HAVE A PLACE TO GO! I HAVE A SCHOOL! A GOOD ONE! ::SWIMS::

    We have a place we found, too, but the people in it right now are jerks and are refusing to move out. DDD=

    Nancy, our landlady, got psychotic at my mom and was screaming at her yesterday. DD=

    I'm working like crazy because one of our senior worker people at my gas station is out because she needs BACK SURGERY! DDD=!

    But also making a ton of money! =D!

    BUT ALSO BEING DRIVEN INSANE BY RUDE CUSTOMERS LIKE THEY ALWAYS ARE BEFORE SNOWSTORMS! DDDDDD=!!!!

    akljfdhkgj conflicting. U~V~M~

    To be honest, I'm so happy. All my other schools could reject me, as long as I have a school to go to and learn~<333333
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    neurola
    Dec. 14th, 2007 @ 07:42 pm AD 钙!!!!
    I went on a trip to Boston's Chinatown with my Modern Chinese History course on Wednesday, returning with many milk candies. =DD

    However, today, being me, I got bored and decided to translate the front text on a yummy milk-soury-drink thing.

    Much lulz ensued:
    中国驰名商
    娃哈哈
    was at the very top. After much puzzling and looking up radicals and stuff, I finally came to the shocking conclusion that it meant: "Chinese business 'Chi'" and, as for the title of the milk itself, "Baby haha!" The haha was a laugh, by the way. Not just a random... sound. It struck me as somewhat odd that a business would need to announce that the chi was its name, but whatever.
    Apparently I had bought the equivalent of a juice box. =3 It was pretty yummy, though.<3

    So, moving on, the label itself read, "AD钙" EVERYBODY SHOULD PITY ME because the 'gai' was stylized. It meant "AD Calcium". Not very exciting. The last bit was... uh, amusingly honest? "AD钙奶饮料“
    Which means, apparently, "AD calcium milk drink substance". For the record, I checked- there is, indeed, no actual milk in my new fave, AD钙奶饮。

    SO, pluses: I can at least, with some effort, get basic meanings out of labels and understand some stuff.
    Minuses: I bought the equivalent of juicy-juice.

    A good day for science!!! >D
    If I get really bored, I might try to translate the wrappers of the hard milk candies I got, or maybe the soft milk candies.
    ....I like milk, okay?
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    neurola
    Nov. 17th, 2007 @ 11:45 am (no subject)
    I just started Firefox up after it had updated and found all of my bookmarks- ALL OF THEM- gone. Some stuff was bookmarked because I forget about it otherwise. Some of it was bookmarked because it was rare. Some of it was bookmarked because it's hard to find.

    I am very, very pissed off.
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    mystery
    Nov. 16th, 2007 @ 05:39 am (no subject)
    You know what cracks me up even more than fangirl Japanese? Fangirl Chinese- if only because mistakes are so, so much easier, and I understand Chinese to a limited extent.

    I was doing my surfing kind of thing today, when I came upon an original story with a "dangerous" and "silky" Chinese Mob assassin named.... Kan Shu.
    ......Kan shu, for those of you who are wondering what the hell I'm laughing about, means, most popularly, "to read a book"- in its most gracefully translated form. Chinese names aren't verbs, in my experience- they're descriptors. I think the writer MIGHT have been going for some of the more fierce meanings of "kan" and "shu", but in the end she'd made a character named Dao (don't even get me started) Read Book.
    ....
    For a deadly, "poisonous" assassin. I- my god, it's hilarious. And their romanization! Atrocious- what is that? IT ISN'T EVEN THE HORRID WADES-GILES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! "Chew Kee" simply doesn't EXIST in the two standard forms. ;___; I wish the authors (I just discovered that there're TWO of 'em) had done- any research? I'd be willing to overlook the famous assassin Mssr. Read Book if they didn't then skip off into make-up land.

    More Chinese Nerdishness, along with more pain on my part. WRYYYYYYY )
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    neurola
    Nov. 8th, 2007 @ 09:40 pm (no subject)
    Current Mood: artistic
    You know what makes me really, tragically upset?
    When I see amazing lineart totally ruined by a terrible coloring job. I mean, yeah, I'm not exactly the best colorer out there and my lineart is, uh, special, to say the least, but I have diverse styles for diverse types of drawing, and AGGHHH
    Some artists may be incredible, but they just- don't seem to be able to handle color!! AND THAT IS OKAY
    JUST
    FIND SOMEBODY THAT CAN AND PARTNER UP WITH 'EM!!!
    Seriously, it just ruins a wispy, thin, delicate piece of lineart if the coloring is heavy and thick, and PEOPLE- color. Color. Certain colors in certain shades just. Just. DO NOT. Go together. EVER. Like? DARK CRIMSON AND LIME GREEN. I could probably make it work, and the people reading this could, but- if you can't? DO NOT WANT.
    I came across a piece of art in somebody's gallery today that I found enormously impressive, and they were all, "click here for the colored version =DDDD". So, naturally, I did, and- ;-; is all I can say.
    If you're going for a near-surreal scene in smoke, here are a few protips: Opacity. It was developed for a reason. Use it. Hair, also? Unless you're going for a certain style (which this person certainly wasn't, judging from her lineart), it's going to have some shading. Yes, even black hair. People's heads with black hair on them aren't just BLACK HOLES OF LIGHT111.
    Having said that, I can also safely say that I suck ass at art and yeah, yeah. Bwa. I sound super big-headed. But it just frustrated me so much to see an incredible piece of art literally ruined by the artist's coloring job. I would chalk it up to still learning, gaining experience, etc., but the artist seemed perfectly content, judging from her comments about the piece, with the job she had done.


    ::note:: This is in NO WAY directed to anybody on my flist. Just wanted to make that clear, since I finished writing this and went, "....ohay...."
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    neurola
    Oct. 31st, 2007 @ 01:39 pm (no subject)
    From [info]karose: How many nerdishnesses do you happen to be?
    Nerrrrds~ )

    Bwuh. In other news, there's this really creepy, really weird kid that's been trying to get into my group of friends- through me, mostly. I didn't mind him at first, but he's quickly becoming incredibly freaky and just a little disturbing.

    WTF, man?? )

    So, uh. I'm looking forwards to free candy.
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    neurola
    Oct. 15th, 2007 @ 11:13 pm THE MOON
    I have to have my article for "This One Time, in Band Camp..." for the school paper done by the end to tomorrow, and... I got nothin', man. I suppose I'll just have to moon about Fred OH GOD YES
    I will write my article on Fred the VI. See, every year in October, my mom picks me up a cute lil' mini pumpy-kin and I keep it as a 'pet' until Fred starts to... pass on. Fred the VI (and yes, that means this is the sixth year of Fred) is a particularly fine specimen, if I do say so. I'll draw a picture and post it later. He's just sooo charming. <3

    ...Uh, now that my unnatural affection for pumpkins is finished for the day... It's kind of funny, because I'm totally gung-ho for Halloween, you know? But it's the only holiday I actually like and enjoy. FREE CANDY AND MINIMAL FAMILIAL INVOLVEMENT FTW!

    Also, I'm getting a haircut and paid soon... but, uh, not in that order. WTF MY HAIR she is so long I can put it up into a small ponytail. FAIL STAMP. I like a shorter cut on the back of the hair, too, because then for like, a month or so, you can run your hand up the back of your head and make the hair stand up. It's so fun<3. It's similar, I would imagine, to having feathers or stiff fur.

    ~Oshiri kajiri mushi~
    GODDAMNIT NAOKIDESU
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    neurola