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A Quarter Life Crisis
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Yay! I just got an email from my dad and he told me that he went to Books a Million yesterday looking for Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and when he couldn't find it, asked for them to order a copy and it should be in by Tuesday at which point he'll mail it to me.

I love my dad. He's the bestest. :D

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Current Music: "Time After Time" - Ozzy Osbourne

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Why I hate God, America, et al. )

Anonymous ambivalence. That's me.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: traffic

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Fuck Rick Berman; fuck Brannon Braga; fuck CBS; and fuck UPN.

Current Mood: irate

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God damn it. I got four movies from Netflix yesterday and have watched two of them so I put them back in the mailbox for the mailman to get but I just noticed that Pauly Shore is Dead, one of the ones I watched last night, is laying on my desk. I put the wrong movie back!

I guess it's what I get for ordering a Pauly Shore movie but I really wanted to see Luther. Grah!

Current Mood: annoyed

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Huh, wha? Why would the Dallas public school office be calling me? I don't even know where the schools in this town are.

And that was a good dream too.

Blrmph.

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: "Thoughtless" - KoRn

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I just ran a vanity search on the SDMB and ran across this thread in Cafe Society wherein someone states surprise that they beat me to answering a Garden State question only an hour after it was asked.

This is incredibly cool for two reasons: the first is that it's good to know I'm known for and am considered an expert on something more than just Star Trek; and the second is that it's Garden State, i.e., the most bad ass movie ever.

This pleases me way more than it should.

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Current Music: talk radio

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So, yesterday was my birthday.

In and of themselves, birthdays don't mean anything to me. I don't particularly care for them but I don't hate them either.. they're just another day although I do admit I like the added attention so far as it isn't overblown.

Kat, thankfully, seems to feel similarly and did just enough for me to remind me I'm not invisible but not so much that I felt uncomfortable. I spent the majority of the day doing what I always do -- surfing, sleeping, etc -- but she and Joel came and picked me up around 6:00 and they took me to Thai Beer for dinner where I opened my present-- The Legends of the Ferengi -- and just had an enjoyable meal and conversation overall.

It felt great to have some human contact again but it felt even better to finally have some real food after three months of frozen pizzas, ham sandwiches, and Burger King. I can't remember the name of what I had but it was rice vermicelli, pork, spinach, onions, peppers, and egg and really, really good.. I want more but my carton here next to me is depressingly empty.

I should buy a mail order SE Asian bride. :p

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Ow, ow, ow.. mentholated cream in my eye! Ow, ow, aaahhhhhh!
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Funniest site ever. Seriously. I almost choked a couple times and have a killer headache from laughing so hard.
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Happy birthday, [info]ezri_dax.

And a late one for [info]blumunk too.
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It's 12:05am and I just woke up after going to bed at around 7:00am yesterday morning. That was a good sleep.

Current Mood: yawny
Current Music: rain

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Can anyone with some artistic skills make me a Hoshi banner? Say, 200 x 600 pixels? I'd like one of the images to be one of Linda Park in something sexy though.

Anyone? [info]celestialwillow? [info]ezri_dax? [info]morzsa?

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Current Music: silence

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Crossposted from the SDMB
As detailed in this thread and mentioned ad nauseam since, I was hit by a car while walking to work and broke my left leg in three places on November 3rd of last year. I was in the hospital for a little over five days, one of which was spent in ICU, and have a rod and three screws in my leg as a result. Originally, I was told that I'd be able to walk somewhat six to eight weeks after the accident but I was doubtful when given the prognosis and wound up being correct.. Christmas and New Year's Day came and went with me still in a wheelchair but I have evidently been getting healthier and stronger with each passing day because today, when I stood up to get something, I accidentally shifted too much weight to my injured leg and only had a momentary wince of pain.

Taking that as an omen, I thought I'd test it out and then grabbed my keys and the bag of garbage waiting to be taken out and then walked outside, first to the dumpster about thirty yards from my doorway, then to the mailbox another twenty yards further, and finally back to my apartment, all without a wheelchair, walker, or any other stabilizing element except the occasional outstretched hand.

It was pretty easy and my leg doesn't hurt at all afterwards but it did tire me out. I've been mostly immobile with only my arms getting any appreciable amount of exercise for the past three months so I'm obviously (even more) out of shape so I'm going to have to take these little walks slowly and spaced out over hours or even days but it feels great to even be able to do this at all.

I can walk though and that's all I care about.

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Current Music: "Combat Baby" - Metric

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Current Music: Velvet Revolver

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Click.

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails

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Maybe I should put a down payment on gastric by-pass surgery with my settlement money.. I am going to weigh 500 lbs by the time my leg's healed and I'm back at work.

Bleh.

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Current Music: "Prison Sex" - Tool

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After three weeks of having a perfectly normal sleeping schedule, I'm back to being awake at 5:00 in the morning and sleeping until just as late in the afternoon. It really shouldn't frustrate me because it isn't like I have any reason to keep normal hours but it does for some reason and that I've been suffering unexplained waves of vertigo the past few hours doesn't help much.

Not being ready for bed and having nothing else to occupy my time with since I've read the board anc chat is dead, I've been toying with my OKCupid profile that [info]avagoyle pestered me into creating. I never intended to do anything with it and as I said previously, created it just to compare myself with her and [info]mmytacism but when you're home alone with no one to talk to and nothing to do, you do what you can to keep yourself entertained. I especially like the captions under my pictures.. no offense, [info]heiligennacht, you know I love you guys. :)

I wonder if anyone will ever bother to message me? I'm not looking for a relationship and have no hopes or expectations that I'll find anyone on there, especially considering my candidness, but it will be interesting to see if I ever do.

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Current Music: 5:00am Traffic

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I'd love to have this shirt )

I didn't call my parents this weekend. I had every intention of doing so like I have most every other week save three or four since I moved but I just didn't feel like it. I did get a chance to talk to my stepdad on AIM when I signed on at 5:00 this morning due to insomnia though. If you remember, he quit his job at Coca-Cola about four months ago and went to school to become a trucker and then took a job with the company that comped him. They wound up screwing him out of half his paycheck for about a month straight though so he quit and is now working with a new company that he started working for last Monday. He had to take a bus to Memphis to get it and my family's east of Chattanooga. For anyone unfamiliar with Tennessean geography, that's a fucking long way.. Memphis borders Arkansas and Cleveland, my hometown, is less than an hour from North Carolina.

It's a better company with better pay and benefits so it was worth it in the end though. With any luck, they'll have their heads above water before 2006 rolls around.. it's pretty bad when your 23 old disabled son is probably the one that's in the best financial shape in the immediate family.

Aside from that, my past few days have been a bore. I didn't do anything but watch movies on Saturday (50 First Dates, My Cousin Vinny -- both 3 stars -- and 21 Grams -- 1 star) and not even that on Sunday. To top it off, I couldn't sleep last night so I wound up cleaning around my place since I'd let it clutter up over the past week. I even washed dishes for the first time in two months. If I had let some of the bowls sit much longer, they would have had indigenous cultures trading with one another.. it wasn't pretty.

Since I'd washed dishes the night before, I didn't feel like dirtying them tonight and I don't have much to eat anyway so I decided I'd brave the cold rain and wheel myself to Burger King to get a value meal. Once there, I ordered my meal and since I was in a wheelchair, I guess the manager decided I needed pity or something so she talked to me while my meal was being made. It wasn't too annoying except for the stupid questions (yes, it's cold out there; yes, it sure is rainy) and I did find out something really surprising: she has family in my hometown, which she named without prompting from me when I told her I was from Tennessee.

I think my jaw hit the ground at the revelation.. the world is tiny sometimes.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "It's Been a While" - Staind

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I just woke up from an inadvertently long nap and am in an unnaturally pleasant mood right now and feeling ... huggy, for lack of a better term. It's as if I've been drinking (haven't had a drop in at least four months) and suddenly feel compelled to tell certain people that "I love you, man!" and give them a (cyber) hug but I'll try to keep my dignity intact and refrain. I've done that a few times over the past year and it's always a little embarassing the next day when I remember what I did.

Just what the hell did I dream about?

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Current Music: "Gasoline Dreams" - Outkast

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From Scout, Mauvaise, and Others
Accent: I really don't know anymore. Kat and Joel tell me I have a distinct but not very pronounced Southern accent but others have told me any number of things, including a Northern and even Canadian accent.

I've not once been asked where I'm from since moving to the Pacific Northwest though and I even had Cervaise tell me that he couldn't hear it and he's had voice training so I tend to think it's negligible.

Breast size: Hell if I know.

Chore you hate: All of them. Probably cooking though.

Dad's name: Jim.

Essential make-up item: Chapstick is as close as I come.

Favorite cologne: Preferred Stock.

Gold or silver: Silver.

Hometown: Cleveland, Tennessee

Insomnia: All the time, including currently.

Job title: Caretaker.

Kids: None and not planning on any.

Living arrangements: I live alone in a 2Br, 1.5 bath apartment. Might start advertising for a roomate soon though.

Mom's birthplace: Manhattan, New York

Number of apples you've eaten: Probably less than a hundred. I'm not a big fan of apples.

Overnight hospital stays: The five nights I was in the hospital for my leg are all I remember.

Phobia: Heights, hives, and hive insects.

Religious affiliation: None unless you're one of those people that consider atheism a religion

Siblings: Three half-sisters, a stepbrother, and a stepsister.

Time you wake up: Anywhere from 10:00am to 3:00pm.

Unnatural hair colors you've worn: None although I've thought about it before. If I want blue hair, it'd probably be better to do it while I'm 23 and working for a private employer than when I'm 35 and, hopefully, working in a more professional environment.

Vegetable you refuse to eat: Lima beans; green beans; peas; whole kernel corn; and a hell of a lot of others.

Worst habit: Laziness; idleness; sloth; and redundancy.

X-rays you've had: At least three of my leg. Not aware of any others.

Yummy foods you make: I burn water.

Zodiac sign: Aquarius.

What I Was in High School. (Real Surprising) )

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Current Music: "Love Me Like That" - Michelle Branch

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Motherfucking hell. If this radio wasn't Kat's, I'd throw it against the wall right now. I've had this CD all of a day and a half and it's already skipping and hissing and generally driving me insane, thinking it might be scratched but it isn't. I've inspected it closely at least half a dozen times and there's not even so much as a stray bit of lint on it.

SO WHY MUST IT SKIP?! GRAH!! No one comes between me and Michelle Branch!

Okay, except Hoshi. And Ezri. Ooh. And Leeta. Kira too, now that I think about it.

What was I saying again? Oh, yeah. This radio sucks.

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Current Music: My Distorted CD

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I got the check. Never has a piece of paper ever made me so happy. Just needs deposited now and I can finally start breathing easier.

I also got my CD, Michelle Branch's Hotel Paper, from [info]slvrfire in the mail finally and have been listening to it nonstop for the past eight hours. I still prefer The Spirit Room for the time being but it takes three or four dozen replays of an album before I get a real opinion on it so that could very well change sometime in the next week or two.

Aside from that, the last four or five days have been uneventful. I finally managed to finish 1633 over the weekend and have read about four chapters of Subterranean by James Rollins though. After four months of slogging through it, it feels great to have that behind me. The strange thing is, it picked up at the last hundred pages and I'm actually thinking about picking up the third installation in the series if Amazon has it cheap enough.

I got it in my mind to clean up around the place too and except for my dishes, -- which will probably never be washed -- everything is nice and neat and in its place. While cleaning out my stack of documents, I also ran across some pictures -- including one of me at maybe two years old in my granny's lap with my two older sisters and two older cousins surrounding us -- and decided that my apartment was too plain with no art on the walls so I taped up about eight pictures on my west wall, which is right next to my desk. Now when I start to feel lonely, I just look at what I have taped up and smile. Not quite the same as having friends over but it's better than nothing.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: "One of These Days" - Michelle Branch

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Yay. I'm finally getting my first installment of lost wages.. a check for $2300 is being overnighted and should be here by Monday.

Sadly, it's only 70% of what I would have otherwise earned and $1500 of that goes to my landlord automatically with the other $800 disappearing soon afterwards but I don't really care. I'm not going to be living in fear of being kicked out in the rain anymore and assuming these are monthly checks (I sure hope so), I can actually run my heater more often and not worry about frostbite either.

To counterbalance the good news though: USPS and Netflix are still whores. Still no CD and my copy of Secretary didn't show up yesterday or today when I've already watched and returned Jeux d'enfants and The Cooler.

A pox on their houses. I shall make worm's meat of them.

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Current Music: "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam

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Your EQ is


113


50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!

51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese.

71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.

91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.

111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.

131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.

150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar.


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Current Music: "Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots

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Netflix and/or USPS are whores. I've still not got my CD from Sarah after a week and after two months of prompt service from Netflix, it's starting to slow down. I mailed my DVDs in Monday and any other week, I'd be watching the first one by now but not this week. I've still not even gotten confirmation that they've shipped.

I guess them slowing down after they have you hooked isn't a myth after all. If this becomes a habit, I'll stop though.. if I can get 25 DVDs a month for $19 is one thing but 12 is another. At this point in time, if I'm not getting a really good deal for something, it's not worth the money. I am broke as hell.

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Except for some dishes that need to be washed, my apartment is completely clean for the first time in three or more months. And it only took me two days, six tylenol, and three band-aids to do it. Fun, fun.

In other news, I've almost completely devoured my Garden State DVD and unless there are some easter eggs on it, only have about 5/8ths of the second commentary to go before watching everything offered. A first for me.. I usually don't bother to watch extras except for deleted scenes and trailers. Some of the stuff that was cut was magnificent, by the way. The scene where Large finally cries is much more powerful and I wish it -- and Sam's reaction -- had been kept in, but it was cut for some reason.

But enough of that. As much as I love the movie and play it up as an obsession, I don't want to become even more of a caricature than I already am. Do yourselves a favor and either go watch or rewatch it though.

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Current Music: Something by Alanis Morrisette

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He's protecting me.

So?

He likes me.

Don't be cute.

He's my knight in shining armor.

Don't talk about knights in front of Mark. It's a sore subject.

I'm going to kill that motherfucker.

Pun intended?


Best. Movie. Ever.

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I just got the mail and found two largish boxes, a smaller one, two pieces of junk mail, and a bill.

The junk mail went in the trash obviously but the bill, which I am trying to ignore and/or forget, is from my insurance agency telling me that I have until the 19th to pay $445 or will have my policy terminated. I sent an email off to my lawyer to see if there is any way that can be deferred until my settlement and I am hoping it will. Otherwise, I'm going to have to use my credit card and it doesn't have very much more than that amount on it and if it's maxed out, I won't have any emergency money left when my bank account dries up either this month or next. Blah.

While opening that sucked, opening the boxes definitely didn't. The first one I opened was from vivalostwages and had five of the seven tapes of Enterprise and Joan of Arcadia I've missed since breaking my leg. She continues to surprise me with her thoughtfulness, especially when I've never been able to repay her in the year and a half she's been taping these shows for me. That's around fifty VHS cassettes she's sent me, not to mention the small presents she's occasionally sent. The most I've given her in return is $10. I think if I have some money left over from the settlement, I am going to send her some money or buy her something really nice, one.

The second box was from another Doper and had more gifts in it from rocking chair, someone that sent me a previous care package that I wasn't expecting anything further from. The last box had a Spock teddy bear (that I have sitting on my bookcase), four paperback novels, some Tastey Cakes (s/he's from Philadelphia), and I think a couple other things I forgot. This time around, it was a letter telling me to keep my spirits up, a bag of mint Hershey Kisses, and four books: The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman; The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson; Tesla: Man out of Time by Margaret Cheney; and Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster of 1903 by Anthony P. Hatch. Very cool.

The coolest thing of all was in the small box though. Once I saw its size, I knew it had to be one of two things and I didn't open it up until the end to save the best for last, so to speak, and it didn't disappoint: it was Garden State! WHOO! I know what I'm going to be doing tonight.

Despite that damned bill, this is a very good day. :)

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Current Music: "Touche" - Godsmack

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I just finished watching Boys Don't Cry and I haven't felt this infuriated by a movie in I don't know how long.. maybe never. I love Peter Saarsgard and I have no issue with the Midwest but I'd've probably murdered the former and turned the latter into a smoking crater moments ago if it had been within my power.

I can't believe how irrationally angry this movie has made me. Hilary Swank definitely deserved her Oscar.

Current Mood: enraged

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In the year 2005 I resolve to:

Bang the guy who lives next door.

Get your resolution here




My Year in Review )

Also, if you haven't yet, go here and reply.
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So, I finally got around to seeing the doctor yesterday after having to reschedule the past couple weeks after Kevin, my lawyer, arranged for a medical taxi to take me to and fro the hospital. It's all being charged to his account for the time being and I assume will be included amongst the fines and fees of the settlement.

The appointment was at 2:15 and the cab to the office came to get me around 1:30 and the driver and I talked about movies while en route. It was a pleasant enough conversation, which was surprising.. I guess I just expected the cabbie to be quiet and that I'd read my book in the backseat but it went well so I didn't mind.

Once at the hospital, I was ushered into the X-Ray room pretty damn quickly, had those done, and was then off to the offices themselves in thirty minutes, tops. A ten minute or so wait later and I was talking to the doctor in one of his rooms too, which was shocking. Last time, it took me a good forty-five minutes to even get in there and another twenty or so to see the doctor.

Anyway, he was pretty enthusiastic about my healing and showed my x-rays and explained that things were coming along great and that my movement was really good too so my progress is going along better than average, which I was pleased to hear. What I was not pleased to hear was when I told him that I needed to be completely and totally healed to perform my job as a caretaker safely and he agreed, telling me that it would be June -- SIX MONTHS -- until I would be at one hundred percent and that he'd write that down on my charts to give to Kevin. After I stuttered out a shocked "June? So long?", he told me that the break was really severe and the injury very serious and that if I were very lucky and diligent, I might be able to get back to work by April or May.

So even at best, I'm going to be out of work and forced to be a hermit for five months. Christ. I'm not the most social person but I need human contact like anyone else and, as is, I see one person a week and another once every two to three. Grah.

I better get a LARGE settlement. Like five figures. And that's after the lawyer's cut. This is insane.

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Current Music: "Whatever" - Godsmack

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1) Anyone subscribed to Netflix and want to be my Friend on it? It's a new system where you can see what other people have ranked movies and to give and recieve suggestions as well. If so, reply with your email address and I'll send an invite off.

2) Assuming you trust me and might possibly want something from me in the indeterminate future (a card, a small gift, a horse's head, whatever), please reply to this with your name and address even if I already have it. I suck at file keeping and probably have lost it by now.

Comments are screened, of course.

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Current Music: "Welcome to the Machine" - Pink Floyd

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<3 Gina <3
Pardon the lame ASCII art in the title but I just got a package in the mail from [info]lilbtagna and am enthused by the hand-knitted (crocheted, WHATEVER) scarf and card that were in it. I've read the card a couple times already and have the scarf wrapped around my neck and lower face as I type. Having never owned a scarf before, I'm surprised at how well it's working in just the short time I've had it on. My hands are nice and toasty whereas before, they were chunks of ice. Now if someone would just knit me some booties.

[info]zette? I wear a size 13. :)

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Current Music: "Come As You Are" - Nirvana

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Sweet mother of fuck, I just got my electric bill for this month and it's $80. That might not seem like much but considering it's usually around $20 and the money in my bank account is getting lower and lower as the days go by without working or getting compensated, it's a lot.

No more heater for me. I'll just cut off my toes if they get frostbite.
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Happy Birthday, Ava
Christmas yesterday went pretty well.

I was originally supposed to be picked up by Jean at or around noon but she got into a snit over me not thanking her again and she had Joel come pick me up instead. Once I was over there, she acted all nice and pleasant towards me so I didn't say anything although she's really starting to wear on me.

Once there, I kept mostly to myself since most of the conversation was going on in the kitchen and I was in the living room. Kat came over to talk to me a couple times and I made small talk with Russel, Kat's sister's brother-in-law, between listening to carols and napping too. Nice guy that's had an interesting life.

I also made out like a bandit on presents, comparitively speaking. While I didn't get very much (and that's to be expected when living away from home), everyone bought me stuff, which surprised me.

From Kat and Joel, I got "If Britain Had Fallen", "The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition", and the Director's Cut of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which I inadvertently discovered I was getting only three hours before when I was adding stuff to my amazon wish list so that I can give it to my mom for my birthday next month (link for anyone that would like to buy me something too :)) and I noticed someone had ordered me something. Knowing it had to've been Kat, who I was talking to at the time in IM, I told her about it and played dumb about it just to make her squirm. It worked. :D

Anyway, besides that, I also got two oven mitts, two pot holders, a $25 gift card, and lotto tickets that I wound up winning $17 with from Kat's mom, a gourmet chocolate hazelnut candy bar from Kat's sister, and, most surprisingly of all, a button down flannel shirt from Jean.

Then we had dinner and I dozed a bit on the couch until Jean had Joel put in The Manchurian Candidate which I tried to watch to no avail. It  is quite possibly the dullest movie ever.

After that, it was 7:00 and time for me to come home, where I called my mom and sister and tried watching my DVD before giving into my exhaustion around 10:00 and just went to bed.

In addition to the stuff I got yesterday, I also got two pre-fabricated bookcases, a box of meats and cheeses from Swiss Colony, and a small four cup coffee maker from and [info]blackbyrd2 and his girlfriend on Christmas Eve when he came to get my clothes and am expecting two $100 checks from my dad and sister as well as the Garden State DVD(!!!) my mom pre-ordered me on amazon.com.

All in all, this was a pretty kick-ass Christmas considering how bad it could have been and how annoying the past two months have been. Kat continues to treat me like I'm her little brother (I mean that in a good way), my leg continues to heal, and my family was able to have a good time despite my being on the other side of the continent.

Current Music: "Blackened" - Metallica

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Surprisingly Appropiate Gift Predictions from my Friends List )

I might actually resume a somewhat normal sleeping schedule for a couple days now because my physical therapist dropped in on me about an hour ago and woke me up to see how things are going and we talked for about twenty minutes about what's changed since the last time I saw her. I might not have the best of luck when it comes to getting help from other people (read: Jean) but, so far, the people the hospital have assigned to me, Traci and Gayle, have proven to be very helpful and just nice women in general. I really like both of them.

Speaking of Jean, I got an email from my lawyer's secretary about my work release and it seems I won't be able to get that until I'm able to visit the doctor and have them give me one so, in effect, when she quit on me like she did, she also fucked me out of the money I'm supposed to be getting for being out of work since I haven't been able to get to the doctor like I'm supposed to. That's nice.. especially since my money's running so low that I'm scared I won't have enough to pay all my bills.

Thankfully, I'm getting some money from my dad for Christmas though.. that should help things out a bit although knowing him and my stepmom, it's not going to be very much. I'm hoping it'll be a hundred but I'm expecting something more like $25. Every little bit helps though and they're doing more for me than some parents would so I'm thankful for it despite my cynicism.

I'm turning into Scrooge. I won't say it though.
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Well, the doctor's appointment tomorrow is a no-go. I called Wheels, an agency that supposedly helps the disabled and elderly, and they told me to be able to use their services, I'd need to meet a CARTS bus at Fir Villa Rd and then take it into Salem where I'd have to meet their bus somewhere else to go to the doctor's.

That wouldn't be much of an issue if it weren't for the fact that I'm disabled and in a wheelchair. There's no way I can make that and I have a hard time imagining that other, worse off, people could either. Then there's also the misleading information on their webpage that makes it sound like they'll pick you up and drop you off exactly where you need to go.

Bleh. I feel sorry for people that have to actually rely on that agency. At least in a month or two, I should be healed and able to go where I please.. the people that have permanent ailments are stuck with them though.

Now to call the doctor and reschedule again. If nothing else, I'll take a cab the next time.
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I have a new default icon. It's from the opening scenes of Garden State when Largeman's father calls him to tell him about his mother's death. Since I've been depressed and been spending so much time in bed lately, I felt it fitting.

Plus, I just love the movie. And I'm getting it for Christmas. Yay! Originally, my mom was going to buy me some candy from swisscolony.com since she's in worse financial shape than I am and they allow payment deferrals but it seems she overextended herself there and is getting me the DVD instead which I'm really happy about. Sure, I'd've loved the candy but it would have been eaten in three days and I'd have nothing but a tin left over.. at least this way, I'll have something to keep me entertained for however long it takes me to get sick of it or wear it out, one. Not sure which will come first.

Aside from that, nothing else has happened that's really worth mentioning. I finally got to talk to Gina again for about an hour yesterday morning and vented to her a little bit about how I've been feeling the past couple weeks. Putting it here seems pointless and too much like attention-whoring anyway, so I keep the worst of it bottled inside. It felt good to get some of it out.

After finishing my conversation with her, I crawled into bed and slept the rest of the day away except for a five minute window when I went to the door to get my clothes from [info]blackbyrd2 at around 3:30. After he left, I got back into bed and didn't get up 'til 2:30 or so the next morning. Now, seven hours later, I'm contemplating another day of sleeping after I call to make sure I can make my doctor's appointment tomorrow.

All this typing tires a man out, I guess.

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Current Music: the heater

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Yesterday, I slept from 5:00am to 9:00pm and probably would have stayed in bed even longer if my phone hadn't rang a dozen times and I hadn't had to use the bathroom. Now, a scant ten hours later, I'm fighting to stay awake and feel like I could do it all over again. I can't though.. I have to call my mom and dad and also be up in case my laundry's brought back to me.

While I'm not especially looking forward to the first (nothing against my parents.. I love them but I just don't feel like talking to anyone), I am the second. It's been at least a week and a half, probably two or two and a half since I've had any clean clothes and so that long or longer since I've had a shower. I know that sounds disgusting and, believe me, it is, but so is showering and then putting on dirty clothes.

I'm going to take as long a shower as my hot water will let me tonight. Hopefully, it'll rinse away more than just the grease and grime.
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I think I might someone to replace Jean. One of Kat's LJ friends, a lurker on the SDMB that lives about forty miles from here, contacted me on Sunday to see if I would be interested in having him help with my needs. Being avoidant, as always, I waited until Tuesday to call him back and then emailed him Wednesday after he replied back. I don't know what all he can help with but anything's better than what I was left with. Now to check about taking the disabled services bus to Salem for doctor's appointments.. I had to reschedule one I was supposed to have yesterday for next week 'cause she was my only transportation too.

Aside from that, nothing of note has happened. My days continue to blend together, barely distinguishing themselves from one another.. the only thing that breaks the monotony is checking my mail on Tuesdays and Saturdays to get my DVDs from Netflix and I'm already starting to lose a little bit of my enthusiasm for that too. I can't wait to be able to walk again so I can do something other than literally stay on the computer all day.. even when taking a break from the internet, I'm still watching a movie on my DVDR or in chat sharing what latest person, place, thing, or idea annoys me. And that's even more than usual lately.

I think I just need some friends. Some ones I can touch. As much as an internet geek as I am and as much as I consider some of the people I've never met (or have met once), it's still not the same as being able to hang out. Talking to Sarah in IRC, Jess on AIM, Gina on the phone, and the rest of you on livejournal is quality time, yes, but not enough anymore.. especially when I feel like I'm drifting away from them and everyone else due to any number of reasons, my ennui and depression chief amongst them.

When I'm healed, I'll look into some sort of clubs or organizations to see if that might help. And by then, hopefully, I'll've reconnected with the people on here I really need to too. Until then.. I don't know. That might as well be another year away for the way time feels to me lately.

I think I'm going to go to bed.

Current Mood: alone
Current Music: morning traffic

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I was just reading a thread at TrekBBS, a Star Trek message board that [info]ezri_dax introduced me to, and I happened upon a link to psiphi.org, a site that has, amongst other things, a page with upcoming Trek novel.

My opinions on that page. )

And to veer wildly off-topic from this geek overload, I want a kitten. I miss Minerva and Sebastian, my cat back home, and having a little furball to play with while home alone would probably do my spirits well.

Until I have to clean the litterbox while wheelchair-bound.

On second thought, never mind.

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Traci, the nurse who called about the microwave, and her pastor came by last night (by which, I mean Monday night) and stayed here for a little over an hour. While she washed my dishes (which made me feel uncomfortable but she insisted), her pastor swept my floor for me and then talked to me a little bit about this and that, church and god being pretty low on the list surprisingly. I did find out one really cool thing about him though: after seeing my Star Trek magazines and wallpaper, he told me that one of his classmates in college was one of the people that translated the Bible into Klingon.

After a bit of talking, we prayed (or, at least, they prayed and I bowed my head politely), and they gave me their numbers to contact them if I ever need anything again. I doubt I will as they've done more for me than they ever needed to and I hate to be a mooch, my reputation to the contrary notwithstanding. I'll probably donate to their church next year when I have the money though.. they were really cool people.

So, anyway, I've been feasting on turkey and cranberry sauce for the past two days and have already gone through all the sauce and probably thirty percent of the bird, not to mention half the pumpkin pie they brought me. I didn't realize I had been craving the food so much.. the only thing that would have made it better was some rolls and some of my sister's cheese squash casserole. Well, and maybe some people to share it with but that's less likely than the previous two things. I just hope I don't get sick of it before I finish it all.

In other news, I also had a visit from Gayle, my physical therapist, today. She came by to visit about 1:00pm and woke me up. Since I still can't put any weight on my leg, her visits are mostly useless because she can't actually help me out but she comes by every week just to check on me and see if everything is okay. She's a pretty nice woman too and I'm pretty happy to have both of them, especially considering how bad the social worker I had to put up with last week was.

Hopefully, when I see Dr Nonweiler again in a week or so, he'll tell me I can bear weight on my leg and I can start trying to walk again. I also need to talk to him about getting my hydrocodone refilled and possibly having the dosage upped too since my shin is starting to bother me. See if he can't suggest something for my sleeplessness and insane itchiness too.. I have scratch marks on my stomach (by clipped fingernails) because the itching gets so bad sometimes.

Anyway, it's 7:00am now and I am going to go drop my Netflix DVDs in the mailbox (Cube was decent and Jersey Girl was good if you like that kind of movie. Intermission sucked.) and then try to catch a nap before my super comes by at ten to install my new toilet. Don't know if I'll actually get any sleep though. Sigh.
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I've not been updating very much lately as I've been bored and a little run down from being stuck at home staring at my computer for eighteen hours a day. Even as big a geek and recluse as I am, that gets rather boring after a while and, as you can imagine, it doesn't lend itself to journaling either.

"Today, I got up, got online, used the bathroom, ate some dinner, and then went to bed. The end."

Anyway, the reason I'm updating is that I actually have had a couple things worth mentioning happen to me recently. The first, and more important thing, is that I've been approved for temporary food stamps because I'm out of work and don't have any income at the moment.

It's not very much, about $60 a week, I think, but it'll kept me fed and I won't have to worry about spending all the money in my checking account on pesky and unimportant things like eating and can instead use it to pay for luxuries like electricity.

The other thing is that I was contacted on Saturday by the woman who drew my blood a couple weeks ago to see if I would be interested in accepting a microwave from her pastor. Evidently, I had told her I was going to take my bike back to Wal Mart because it's a piece of crap and then use the money I got from it to buy a microwave and she mentioned that to her pastor, who suggested they just donate a microwave to me instead. And since it's the holidays, they're also roasting an entire turkey for me so that I can just reheat it in the microwave whenever I get hungry.

I need to call her later today, actually. She left me a voicemail yesterday morning but I never checked it because I had to get dressed to go to Kat's and then when I came home, I took a nap from 6:00pm until 1:00am. I'll listen to it in a couple hours and assuming it's telling me everything is set, will call her to tell her to bring it by after I clean up a bit around the apartment.

I'm really looking forward to that turkey.. I've been wanting some since Thanksgiving.
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My sleeping schedule's fucked.

Two days ago, I woke up a bit earlier than I intended to, 11:00am, and was still feeling pretty tired after a couple hours so I thought I'd take a quick nap to recharge. I laid back down at 2:15 or so with the light still streaming in from my patio door but when I woke up, it was already dark. Instead of the hour or two nap I intended, I wound up sleeping for six hours and it was now 8:30.

'cause of that, I wound up going to sleep at 10:00am yesterday morning and am expecting something similar tonight. Or rather, this morning. It doesn't really matter, really, as I have nothing that requires I keep a normal sleep schedule for the time being but it's still really odd to slip back into this pattern after a year of being forced to keep normal hours.

It does give me plenty of free time though. Even as large as the internet is, it gets pretty slow in the early morning and with anything better to do, I've finally gotten around to cleaning up around my desk (it's getting messy again already though) and have found some really cool wallpapers for my desktop.. especially this one, which is my current. The only thing I don't like about it is the UFP seal at the bottom, which looks rather amateurish. Otherwise, it's almost literally awe inspiring.

Yeah, I'm a geek.

And to end, I suggest everyone that likes or can stomach romantic comedies should rent Love Actually, a British comedy starring Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, and Keira Knightley, amongst others. It's quite good.. I gave it four stars.

I don't know how I ever lived before Netflix.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: traffic

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aesiron's Word Usage
1. to (199) 26. with (24) 51. it's (15) 76. they (10)
2. i (189) 27. some (23) 52. there (15) 77. an (10)
3. and (155) 28. on (23) 53. though (14) 78. how (10)
4. the (149) 29. is (22) 54. couple (14) 79. would (10)
5. a (116) 30. going (21) 55. home (13) 80. do (10)
6. in (78) 31. all (21) 56. been (13) 81. more (10)
7. my (72) 32. when (21) 57. back (13) 82. leg (10)
8. of (57) 33. not (20) 58. we (13) 83. know (10)
9. it (54) 34. get (20) 59. he's (13) 84. myself (10)
10. me (46) 35. up (20) 60. told (12) 85. before (9)
11. have (45) 36. his (20) 61. i've (12) 86. hours (9)
12. was (44) 37. if (19) 62. really (12) 87. other (9)
13. that (43) 38. him (19) 63. first (12) 88. might (9)
14. for (42) 39. as (19) 64. now (12) 89. while (9)
15. he (35) 40. this (18) 65. too (12) 90. hospital (9)
16. be (34) 41. got (18) 66. don't (11) 91. she (9)
17. but (32) 42. like (18) 67. since (11) 92. today (9)
18. i'm (32) 43. bit (17) 68. off (11) 93. mail (9)
19. so (32) 44. at (17) 69. has (11) 94. pretty (9)
20. from (28) 45. much (17) 70. something (11) 95. good (9)
21. or (27) 46. am (16) 71. again (11) 96. than (9)
22. just (27) 47. you (16) 72. which (11) 97. think (9)
23. about (26) 48. after (15) 73. two (11) 98. well (8)
24. had (24) 49. by (15) 74. one (11) 99. cast (8)
25. out (24) 50. then (15) 75. see (11) 100. help (8)
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Interesting that "cast", "hospital", and "leg" seem to be the only non-generic words in there. Wonder why that could be? I am slightly proud that they're all so relatively low though.. means I've not complained too much.

In other news, it's 6:00am and I am still awake. Bleh.

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I just woke up about thirty minutes ago after having the weirdest dream.

I was back home in Cleveland and was hanging out with my non-existant best friends when we decided to rob the bank near the intersection of Keith and Inman. We go in, I fire off a couple rounds of my gun and then have to foil another gang of thieves that're trying to steal our rightfully stolen money. I don't remember the specifics so well but I know I finished off the leader of the other group by sticking the nozzle of an empty flame thrower in his mouth and giving him some sort of gas poisoning. Or something.

After that, the three of us split up and I started getting nervous I was going to get caught and put in jail so I started heading home but, on the way, happen to pass the house of someone I'd recently met. I went in, saw another friend, Edward Norton, and asked to talk to him alone in the other room. Seems in my dreamworld, Norton's a small-time criminal a la 25th Hour and I wanted some advice on how to cope with being in prison. We talk for a couple hours and then I leave, only to return a couple hours later, where I eventually wind up dozing off next to the main friend's bed where he finds me when he comes in to sleep.

We then get into a minor argument and I spill everything to him and I suddenly morph into Asia Carrera right before his mom walks in to tell him that she's dead.

"No. Wait.. she's alive? And in your room? What the hell?"

Then I somehow morph back into myself and try to run away but I first grab a bottle of something purple out of a cabinet and have a sudden cutscene where there's a commercial for the product I'm holding in my hand -- some sort of anal lube paste, which I wind up squirting in the mom's face as I run past her out the door.

Outside, I circle around the house but am found by the friend again who tells me that he has looked up my history and between that and squirting his mom in the face, thinks I deserve to go to prison as I am not fit to stay in society. This devestates me and I start walking towards his garage where I see that everything I have ever posted to any messageboard ever is written on the sidewalk which stuns me so much that I fall first to my knees and then to my stomach.

Then I woke up.

Such a very strange dream. I'm still feeling guilty over something I never did or would ever do (the robbery, not the lube squirting). Stupid conscience.

Current Mood: weird

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It's 5:00pm and dark outside and I just woke up.

This depresses me for some reason. It shouldn't but it does.
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I think I may have a broken toe to add to the list of my injuries. Or at least a badly bruised or sprained one. I ran over it this afternoon while out getting my mail and it hurt for a while before gradually fading out. In the past couple hours, the pain's come back though and it feels pretty similar to the muscles in my other foot, the one that's swollen from surgery.

I am not pleased.

Current Mood: annoyed

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