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The Heroes Personality Test

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I like Bennet, so that works for me.

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Official last day of work was today; I'll be going in at least three more days to complete collection inventory. Then it's back to the job hunt for next fall.

I still don't know what antipasta is, except that it's... not pasta.... right? Right?

( Memes )

I'm anti-death penalty, so all of the talk leading up to Saddam Hussein's execution was rather disturbing. "We think he's going to be executed within the next few days few hours few minutes." Yeah, the guy was a horrible person who did horrible things. State-sanctioned, pre-meditated death by hanging is also a horrible thing.

::shrugs:: I'm not here to persuade people to my way of thinking; to each his own, and all that.

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I don't get colorbars/"...is love". I just... I don't know. If you list things as an interest, I get it. The color bars seem redundant to me.

I do have a ticker, though, that is counting down the days to spring. It perks me up when I see it. Maybe that's what color bars do for other people.

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In my family, it's popular to bemoan one's birthday. What?! Are you kidding me? Maybe if we just renamed it "Thank God I Didn't Kick Off For Another Year Day" it'd be more widely received. But, c'mon. ::checks calendar:: My birthday is on a Saturday this year, too! In your face! --- sorry. :D

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I don't like country music, as a rule, but this summer I went to a blue grass festival, and, well....

I found out I liked some of it.

One band in particular that I liked was this all-female band called Uncle Earl. One of the singers sang a blue grass song in Mandarin Chinese. How cool is that? I'm thinking I'm going to use my Barnes and Noble gift card to pick up one of their CDs...

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( Two quiz things under the cut )

And another 12-hour work day bites the dust.

Now for chocolate and gorp (and chocolatey gorp).

( ETA: ::snickers:: This has been popping up everywhere lately: )

So. Graduate school.

Tips? Ideas? Helpful hints? I'm at a loss. I'd like to go for a Masters in Library Science. I am poor. My most lucrative job to date is ending in two months, and there's little chance of a similar position opening up in the area anytime soon.

I had decent grades as an undergrad, but it's been so long since college that I can't bring myself to ask professors to write letters of recommendation for me ("Who was this girl again? Doesn't ring a bell...").

Any information would be helpful.

{{I'm only panicking on the inside for now.}}

ETA: Well, maybe this wiki page on the Quarter-life crisis explains a bit of this "oh crap, now what?" feeling. And I definitely qualify as being in the middle of my quarter-life...(assuming I live to be 100, of course. Shhh!). How depressing.

ETA2: Hahahahaha

Hey, waitaminit, am I crazy? That second line only has six syllables! >:O

So when boredom strikes, and I haven't got the attention span to really sit down and read anything, I like to surf around random lj user-info pages. And it just struck me how, whenever I see that someone has posted that they're INTJ, etc., etc., I have no idea what those letters stand for. I mean, yeah, I've taken that personality test, but I can't for the life of me recall what those letters mean, nor can I tell if someone's personality is going to be compatible with mine based on that string of letters. A couple of times, I've gone back and re-taken the personality test just to see what the descriptions are supposed to mean, only to find that I've lost the page I was on where the original letter sequence was found. Whoops.

I guess this means I should just stick with reading people's interest lists, especially since all of the interests we may have in common are in bold. It can't get any easier than that. :-P

So the US lost to Mexico today with a score of 2-1. Life goes on. I do feel that we put a whole lot of effort into this game; we had a slow start, made a couple errors in the first half that cost us, but as a whole, I liked the energy that our side had and the show of determination. I think we had Mexico on edge the entire game, even when they were up by two. It was not an easy win for them.

I know that my heart was in my throat the entire time, anway. Of course, that just gave me more room for candy. :^)

And now, from hp_memage, a Harry Potter meme ( behind the cut. )

ETA: Whoa. At least our game wasn't like today's match between Mali and Togo. Bwah.

The meteorologists had forcasted rain showers turning to snow today.

I walked out of work and there was sunshine and fluffy clouds. Not bad for my first day of being 24.

:^D

( And a Harry Potter quiz )

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Hee.

You're a Speak & Spell!! You nerd, you. Just
because you were disguised as a toy doesn't
mean you weren't educational, you sneaky
bastard.


What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
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Ah, this was cute and fun to do.

My Inner Hero - Wizard!

It's been about seventeen years since I was into baseball; lately, I've really been looking forward to watching the Phillies games. It's all my brother's fault, naturally. :^) While we can be nostalgic about the days of Mike Schmidt and John Kruk (and I can dig out my 1987 Topps cards... which still faintly smell of gum), I have to admit that it's been fun catching up with today's players. Bell and Thome... Michaels and Abreu... etc., etc., ... it's been great.

My brother bought a new, unknown species of cichlid for his 55 gallon tank. I've taken to calling it Little Thome, given that it's most likely going to be huge when it grows up - much like the Red Devil cichlid that's in the tank already. Another thing I can blame my brother for - getting me into fish. I was quite happy with my betta fish, Dodger. Now I'd like to set up a little community tank...and I mean little. Knock his tank down by a factor of ten, and you've got the size fish tank that I own. Unfortunately, it's currently got a green severum cichlid quarantined in it (Severum was just too hostile to Little Thome, apparently, so he's in time-out until Little Thome grows a bit bigger). All I'd like are a few tetras and a snail. I've wanted a snail for a long time - no idea why, really. They're just kind of cute. :^D

Anyway.

In other sports-related news... the DC United vs Metrostars game was great fun to watch, despite the Metrostars being thoroughly trounced as they were. Whoa, hello, defense? Are you out there? Being that I didn't really have a team to cheer on, it was fun just to watch without being tied up in knots hoping for a particular side to win.

The best thing about today? Having 13 members of my extended family here to celebrate various birthdays and graduations, talk, eat, and watch the games. Nothing much beats throwing water balloons, running around the yard in the evening with jars to catch lightning bugs, and playing with sparklers.

Life is good. :^)