I kind of want to start a new journal, this one's carrying a LOT of baggage. So holler if you read this, so I can friend you once I set it up.

On a side note, has anyone seen my ugly checkered cotton tie I used to wear to the Olive Garden? I want to wear it to S-bux sometime :D

I want a kitty soooooo bad. Melissa, who is very smart, says we should get our financial lives together before we get one. But that doesn't stop me from wanting one sooooooooooooo bad. Ohh, I'm gonna die.

EDIT: Oh fuck. Or a bunny. I'm gonna die.

I think I could make these all day.

/am amused.

8/10/2007
8am to 4pm (eastern, may be +3hrs for us west-coasters), eight episodes of Firefly.
08:00 AM - SAFE
09:00 AM - OUR MRS. REYNOLDS
10:00 AM - ARIEL
11:00 AM - WAR STORIES
12:00 PM - TRASH
01:00 PM - THE MESSAGE
02:00 PM - HEART OF GOLD
03:00 PM - OBJECTS IN SPACE

SciFi Schedule

Thank you, Whedonesque.

Here!

All because I wanted to know what came after quaternary. Quinary, whodathunk? And the LJ dictionaries don't even know it! *scoff*

WE ARE OWN ALL CASEY'S LIVEJOURNALSPACEBOOK

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

A-hah!

If you know of any customer-service/entry-level/sheer-awesome-requiring jobs, please let me know. I have excellent customer service skills, I'm a serious people-person, super-organized, and good at thinking on my feet. I just finished up my resume, and it is available upon request. I'm shiny. I work hard. Give me a job. Plz. :D

Even *I* kinda want one.

I made cookies, watched a girly movie, and am proceeding to eat said cookies, dipped in tea, reading a magazine for the fuck of it, and dancing myself dizzy to the fun songs.

Life could be worse.

BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat

I know, off the top of my head, 86, and recognise all of them.

From [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/]


And more fun with words:

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Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool.

Contributed by Kate Harding.

NOTE: Here's Kate reporting from the second day of the SisterSong conference...

Wow. Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool.

For the young'uns around here, in 1993, she became the first African-American and second woman U.S. Surgeon General. After she publicly (at a UN conference on AIDS) stated that masturbation "is a part of human sexuality" and "perhaps should be taught" (as, you know, a healthy alternative to the kinds of sex that transmit disease and cause pregnancy -- go figure) the wingnuts went so insane that Clinton asked for her resignation.

She's 74 years old now, and as she puts it, "I'm not agin', I'm sagin'." I don't even know where to begin covering everything she just said as today's keynote speaker.

How 'bout a few -- or several -- quotes of the day?

"We're sexual beings from the time we're born until we die, and we need to make sure we understand our sexuality and realize that sex is about more than procreation."

"If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones."

"I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted."

"People tell me girls want to have babies so they can get a welfare check -- have you ever known anybody to get rich on a welfare check?"

"If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper."

"If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life."

On why we should be focused on promoting contraception: "I never knew a woman who needed an abortion who wasn't already pregnant. Let's get real."

On people who say condoms aren't 100% reliable: "Condoms will break, but I can sure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms."

On politicians who promote abstinence-only education: "They are boycotting common sense."

And, finally: "It's like dancing with a bear. When you're dancing with a bear, you can't get tired and sit down. You have to wait for the bear to get tired."

She got a standing ovation, twice.

Via Feministing (here)

There's a list of "offenses" and a "fine" for each - tally yours up and pay up, buster!

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Personally, I'd really re-do the amounts per event, some of them are way out of whack. And it's missing half the fun stuff and trouble a really dedicated individual can get into.

Whatever.

I'm...Dawn.

I have RO'd Saturday and Sunday, and would like to go up sometime Saturday. Is there anyone who can drive me there? Call, email or comment, please, as I really don't want to bus up there in a corset.

(1) THUNDERBABE - one of the most awesome play premises I've heard in a long time, featuring my smokin hot friend Lauren in a purple spandex unitard (you may remember her from my last party, drop dead gorgeous, short curly brown hair, did I mention the total and complete hotness?), and you wanna know what the play is about? A retired super hero, now a soccer mom, who must now face an old enemy...and an old flame - DUN DUN DUNNN!! It sounds awesome, and I've got tickets for Thursday the 31st, but it opens tomorrow night, and runs till June 10 and I can't frikken wait. Here is Lauren's entry on the subject, so comment at her for more info, telling her you're going, giving her pretty things, whatever, she also has more links in her entry. Go! You know you want to. It'll be AWESOME.

Smokin Hot. Purple Spandex. Unitard. Super Hero. AWESOME.

(2) FIREFLY MARATHON - Not to confuse anyone, but there will be another WOW-playing Australian visiting the country soon, so I've moved the official date of my AWESOME FIREFLY MARATHON to Friday, June 29th, at some point during the 24 hours concerning that day. His name is Simeon, he played with my ex Aaron, and he's totally awesome. I call him Velanci, though, as that was his char's name, so I'm sure you all can too. He'll be here for about a week or so, then he's going with a bunch of his guildies to Crater Lake but it'll be way fun. Oh yeah, so come to my marathon.

Also, there will be a charity screening of Joss Whedon's Serenity in SF on Saturday, June 23rd, and I highly encourage you all to go, if you're not already. More information can be found here - Can't Stop the Serenity, and here on this 8-min YouTube clip - Joss Whedon's Equality Now Speech. Last year, the Serenity screenings raised over $65,000 for the international women's advocacy group Equality Now, and with more cities holding screenings this year, they're sure to make more. Think about it. You make a difference in the world, an actual difference, get to see Serenity, get to go to SF for an evening, and meet a bunch of like-minded people (even chicks, too!). How awesome is that? How awesome are you?

Love y'all.

Okay, here's an idea.

I've had requests and volunteeringness for pre-nerd books for children of various ages, in contexts like this:

"How do I get my niece to be a geek?"

"She's getting to that phase where everything is about the mall and fashion. Yeah, Johns Hopkins is her goal, but I want her to know how much more there is!"

So so far, those are the two comments I've heard, incidentally but not necessarily specifically for girls. So here's my idea:

What were your favorite books as a kid? In elementary school? In middle school? High school? Tell me a story about what you read, why you liked it/an author/whatever. I always have trouble doing mine since I read so damn much so fast, so I about went through my local library in the 3 years of middle school, and had to find thrift stores and book stores for most of high school, and then I got a credit card and started book shopping online (yeah, it's always where my money has gone...) and yeah.

But give it some thought, and gimme a couple lists. Try to group them by age-appropriateness and I think with just a little effort, we can bring a new demi-generation of geeks into this futuristic world we live in.