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I'm your trusty sidekick geek girl. (That was funnier to me when I actually owned a Sidekick.) I like things, and stuff about things.

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Nov
25th
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snagged from cyclogenesis, fill in your own answers!

10 things you want for christmas:

  1. matte black nail polish
  2. Buxom Babes holiday lip gloss set
  3. 1TB external hard drive
  4. Absolute Sandman
  5. noise-canceling headphones
  6. a set of nice headbands
  7. Lush Angels on Bare Skin face wash
  8. Sweet & Sara vegan peanut butter s’mores
  9. Lush Karma Kream
  10. someplace nice to go where I can wear a pretty dress

9 musicians/bands you love:

  1. Fall Out Boy
  2. Lady GaGa
  3. Peter Gabriel
  4. Green Day
  5. Regina Spektor
  6. Panic! At the Disco
  7. Alkaline Trio
  8. The Gaslight Anthem
  9. The Faint

8 things you do everyday:

  1. sleep
  2. check my email
  3. text Jz
  4. read something
  5. daydream
  6. pick at my cuticles
  7. snuggle my kittens
  8. drink at least a half-liter of water

7 things you enjoy:

  1. caffeine highs
  2. watching my kittens try to eat my sister’s dwarf hamster (he is perfectly safe; he thinks they are his friends)
  3. reading
  4. writing out words I like or collections thereof in cursive or calligraphy
  5. shopping, especially window-shopping
  6. singing
  7. my sisterthing

6 things that will always win your heart:

  1. telling me I look pretty when my hair is curly
  2. timing emails and texts so that I wake up to them
  3. complimenting my outfit
  4. holding my hand
  5. sincerity
  6. letting me pick off whatever you’re eating

5 favourites:

  1. Movie: A Little Princess
  2. Song: I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
  3. Book: Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
  4. Band: I could never pick
  5. Season: autumn, when the fire season in Southern California gets going

4 smells you enjoy:

  1. sugary things
  2. fresh laundry
  3. vanilla
  4. Vera Wang Princess

3 places you want to go:

  1. Venice
  2. Tokyo
  3. Atlantis

2 holidays you love:

  1. Halloween
  2. Christmas

1 person you’d marry on the spot:

  1. Probably no one.
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(via loveyourchaos) This is how I felt when I finished Sandman.  I’m going to start slowly amassing the Absolute Sandman volumes, which are huuuuge but also gorgeous.

(via loveyourchaos)

This is how I felt when I finished Sandman.  I’m going to start slowly amassing the Absolute Sandman volumes, which are huuuuge but also gorgeous.

Nov
24th
Tue
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(via loveyourchaos)

(via loveyourchaos)

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Semantic satiation

piquant:

dailymeh:

Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

This is officially a series.

For Albert/Rachel.

YES.  I’m so glad there’s a name for this.
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This is my kitty, Guenter.  I did not pose him.  That’s just how he rolls.

This is my kitty, Guenter.  I did not pose him.  That’s just how he rolls.

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allcreatures:ginandtattoos: I want that dog (would take the dolphin too)

allcreatures:ginandtattoos:

I want that dog (would take the dolphin too)

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quietplains:lightedwindows: blog: fashion gone rogue

quietplains:lightedwindows: blog: fashion gone rogue

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How the Twilight Phenomenon Doesn't Signal the End of Cultural Civilization

“The point here is twofold: 1) There’s an incredible dearth of pop-culture products aimed at the young female audience, and 2) the New Kids on the Block and Titanic didn’t forever ruin pop culture or end the world, so there’s no reason to believe that Twilight will, either. The sad reality is that it doesn’t take an incredible product to appeal to young teenage girls — they’re so starved for attention that any old love story that involves a good-looking guy sacrificing himself for a woman will probably put up big numbers at the box office. And Twilight is one of the few franchises that have ever been devoted to the female demographic. And yet, even after the examples that Titanic and Twilight have set, studios are no more inclined to make products aimed exclusively at this largely untapped market.”

I don’t agree with everything said here, but the basic idea of this article is solid: that most of the bitching about Twilight is because it has to do with something that’s OMGGIRLY.  And, as we all know, everything girly is gross.
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are2: Instinto

are2:

Instinto

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Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.
— Mark Twain (via quote-book)
Nov
21st
Sat
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Not a big Louis Vuitton fan normally, but man, do those shoes have the power to thrill me.

Not a big Louis Vuitton fan normally, but man, do those shoes have the power to thrill me.

Nov
20th
Fri
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The 30 Most Disturbing Twilight Products

“Well, it was bound to happen, someone was bound to make a felt version of Bella Swan’s womb… wait WHAT. HER WOMB? SOMEONE FELTED HER WOMB? WITH THE MUTATED BLOOD-CRAVING ADULT BABY RENESMEE INSIDE? TELL US WHY. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS??”

I am legitimately interested to see how the fuck they plan on filming that.  Because: ewwww.
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awesomejuice: meganwest: ladimcbeth: shinyredballoon: buildingaladder: cadyheron: danawood:heylaney: I’m with Nordstrom. legallyheidi:{Nordstrom Continues To Oppose Christmas Creep via Consumerist} How refreshing. Cool? This makes me happy on a ridiculous level. I can remember when everybody did this (old lady alert!) It has always bugged the crap out of me that stores start setting up for Christmas the day after Halloween. Barrett has listened to my ranting on the subject every year. I actually gave up this year, I planned to just ignore it as best I could and not torment everyone within hearing distance with my enraged tirades about the over-commercialization of Christmas. Somehow, knowing that there is a store out there that agrees with me, I feel vindicated. It’s sad this is as refreshing as it is. A+ Seriously Halloween-to-Christmas is just annoying. I tried to stop it at my job by dragging my feet a little bit on producing holiday art, but I got steamrolled. (And by steamrolled, I mean it all came back to kick me in the ass this week. Sigh. At least I managed to get it put off until Nov 24th/25th?) Oh, good God this thrills me to an absurd degree.

awesomejuice:

meganwest:

ladimcbeth:

shinyredballoon:

buildingaladder:

cadyheron:

danawood:heylaney:

I’m with Nordstrom.

legallyheidi:{Nordstrom Continues To Oppose Christmas Creep via Consumerist}

How refreshing.

Cool?

This makes me happy on a ridiculous level. I can remember when everybody did this (old lady alert!) It has always bugged the crap out of me that stores start setting up for Christmas the day after Halloween. Barrett has listened to my ranting on the subject every year. I actually gave up this year, I planned to just ignore it as best I could and not torment everyone within hearing distance with my enraged tirades about the over-commercialization of Christmas. Somehow, knowing that there is a store out there that agrees with me, I feel vindicated.

It’s sad this is as refreshing as it is. A+

Seriously Halloween-to-Christmas is just annoying. I tried to stop it at my job by dragging my feet a little bit on producing holiday art, but I got steamrolled. (And by steamrolled, I mean it all came back to kick me in the ass this week. Sigh. At least I managed to get it put off until Nov 24th/25th?)

Oh, good God this thrills me to an absurd degree.

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quarterandakiss: ;_; I went to a horror movie night at a friend’s a few years ago, and we started with American Psycho.  There’s that scene where Patrick kills a homeless guy and then kicks a dog.  The fact that the entire room shouted in distress when he kicked the dog but not when he killed the human being made me roll my eyes.  At which point everyone called me heartless.

quarterandakiss:

;_;

I went to a horror movie night at a friend’s a few years ago, and we started with American Psycho.  There’s that scene where Patrick kills a homeless guy and then kicks a dog.  The fact that the entire room shouted in distress when he kicked the dog but not when he killed the human being made me roll my eyes.  At which point everyone called me heartless.