Carlie Goes Down

I Despise the 49ers . . .

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:46:25 GMT

Not only did they win last night when, clearly, Chicago should have won, but the CW felt the need to broadcast the game because it was a Bay Area game. Which means everyone outside of the Bay Area got to see Supernatural last night, whereas I and all my fellow Supernatural fans in the Bay Area were cruelly abandoned.

Curse you, 49ers. Aren't you leaving for Santa Clara or something, anyway?

How the Dean Girls Mourn . . .

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:16:49 GMT

It appears that my future husband, Jensen Ackles, has proposed to his actual girlfriend, leaving me sad and alone for yet another birthday.

Sniff.

In other news, I'm (hopefully) about a month away from graduating SFSU!!!

Today's Melodramatic Song of Choice: Everything I Touch, I Break

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:41:40 GMT

You know, the day started out fine. I slept in. That was nice.

And then the tattoo artist in Eye Spy never showed up for our scheduled appointment, so we were like, hell with you, we'll try Evolution, and the Evolution guy pretty much said my tattoo wouldn't work. I mean, he was nice about it and all, and I like the shop well enough (even if we did get the "is this your first tattoo" and "if you go too much bigger, it will be a masculine tattoo," like, did I show up today in my poodle skirt and Mary Jeans, jesus, guy) but that means I have to now find a new dragon and it took me a few YEARS to find the last one and ARG.

I came home to sulk in a bowl of macaroni and managed to dump almost the entire pot in the sink while trying to drain it.

Do not let me near your children. I will accidentally infect them with some kind of disease and then stomp on their little heads and then their eyes might explode for good measure.

B-Day Plans

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:52:57 GMT

So, I've changed my mind (again) about my birthday party, and I've decided I do want to do a Murder Mystery Party. I'm looking at a few now and trying to decide which one I want, but more importantly, I need to have people commit to a date. My b-day's the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving weekend's always kind of hectic and anyway, I'm probably working that night, SO:

How's about Murder Mystery Party at the St. George residence on Friday, December 4th? Let me know if that works for you guys.

Also, Norah and Kaci: bring your husbands. Do not let them say no. They are playing because I need 8 people. And we loooove them. But if they come and refuse to participate, I will beat them with Mekaela's Eeyore collection : )

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:01:25 GMT

I cannot believe that Not So Silent Night is already sold out.

Fuckers.

Oh, Academia . . . And Also, Bad Fashion . . .

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:15:05 GMT

School was surprisingly good today. We had a TA lecture in Chinese Philosophy and Religion, and while that normally means that the TA stands in front of the class stammering and trying to get thirty semi-conscious students to participate, the lecture was surprisingly interesting. So much so, in fact, that I was irritated we had to turn in our reader's response, not because I didn't do it (I did, very slooowly, on the bus this morning) but because the material made a lot more sense after the lecture. I could, potentially, have written something insightful if I'd, you know, understand what the hell I was reading.

As far as the actual text goes . . . well, first, good people, I must tell you that I have never wanted a turtle. Ever. I have never understood the concept of the pet turtle. It doesn't really do anything. It's not cuddly. It kinda just sits there, doesn't it? Anyway, that has all changed, because this text, The Zhuangzi, is making fun of parables and divining answers from the ancient sage kings and such, and in it there is this turtle with the best name I've ever heard: Dark Genius.

And now I desperately want a turtle just so I can name it Dark Genius.

Hell, I should name my kid that. Dark Genius St. George. Dark St. George. Maybe if I become a celebrity.

In other, scholastic news: we got our metaphysics midterms back. My teacher comes in to class (wearing this godawful oversized man's light blue T-shirt which she wears at least once a week and always shows off her pit stains . . . i mean, sweaty armpits happen to the best of us, but for some reason they're only noticable on this woman in this shirt and she WEARS IT ALL THE TIME . . . not to mention she has it tucked in, but the shirt's too damn big, so it bunches around half of her waist which kind of ruins the effect) and this is the first thing she says:

"So, I'll be passing back your papers today. I was a little disappointed."

Why not just tell us that they sucked some serious monkey ass? I mean, we all know that's what you mean. I think "a little disappointed" is actually crueler.

She then goes on for the next ten minutes about everything that we did wrong, and after everyone is trying to remember if their thesis actually made any sense at all, the teach says, "I'm going to pass back your papers now if there aren't any questions." Which there shouldn't be, right, because you should want to see your fucking paper before you have any motherfucking questions about it, yeah?

Apparently not. Ten minutes of questions, culminating from this guy who I overheard before class whining about how his teachers tell him he can have whatever opinion he wants except that he has to have the right one (jesus, cry me a river. there's a difference between having a different opinion and acting like a jackass on every single point that could possibly be argued . . . guess where this guy usually fits). Anyway, he starts talking about how academic papers don't take students' creative genius into consideration, very wah wah, we're all doing the banking model of education, what a tortured artiste i am pablo freire, no one understands me , and I just want to get the double-barrelled shotgun I don't own out from under my seat and kill all these motherfuckers who won't shut up long enough so I can see what I got on a paper that takes up 40 PERCENT OF MY GODAMNED GRADE.

I feel a little mollified when I eventually get my paper and found out that I got an A. Ha! Take that, metaphysics! Who can BS about the moral consequences of free will in a predetermined universe?

That's right, bitches. Me.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:45:15 GMT

Due to problematic novocaine shots, I had probably the most painful filling of my life (which wasn't like shrieking agony or anything, but I'm predisposed to being overdramatic) and my jaw now hurts like a mother, but all my cavities are filled and I am officially done for at least a year!!! HA!

(And yes, I know you're supposed to go every six months, but c'mon, people, once a year is a big step for me. Don't ruin this for me.)

In other news, after a week and a half off, I half to go back to work tomorrow night. School too.

Damn.

Today, I . . .

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:57:06 GMT

Survived a corn maze.

Helped plan a bad horror film in which I and most of my friends are slaughtered by some monster man who comes out from beneath the ground in a corn field.

Sent off my UCLA grad application (1 down, four to go!!!)

Was able to look around without groaning in pain.

Ate at Dennys with friends.

Did not have a chocolate milkshake : (

Made plans for Halloween tomorrow.

. . . survived a corn maze. Seriously, this is big news.

It was a good day.

I don't usually mind remakes, but this is a little ridiculous . . .

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:32:35 GMT

America is remaking Death at a Funeral, which was English movie made a whole two years ago. Amusingly, Peter Dinklage plays the same role he played last time. I want to be outraged by this by the timeline alone, but I did have problems with the original, and I'm all into the cast: James Marsden, Zoe Saldana, Luke Wilson, Martin Lawrence, Danny Glover, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, Ron Glass, Loretta Devine . . .

Still. They couldn't have waited a whole five years to make this film?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:35:58 GMT

My lungs aren't making the disturbing creaky/crackly/whistley sounds that they were yesterday, which is nice. On the other hand, I can feel sinus pressure in my cheeks and when I glance around, my head kinda feels like it's concaving.

But I don't have to make a special trip to SF on Friday, so all is happy in the land of Carlie.

And budget cuts strike again!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:58:46 GMT

I was supposed to pick up a letter of a recommendation today from the teacher I met with last week. Unfortunately, instead of dropping it off to the CW department, he mailed it there, and with these fucking awful furlough days, the CW department and mail room, I guess, was completely closed both last Friday and Monday. Basically, I'm likely going to have to make an additional trip into the city this Friday, three hours both ways, for the five minutes it takes me to walk up three flights of stairs and pick up a letter. Otherwise, I won't have it in time to mail out by Tuesday, and I won't even have the chance of going to UCLA.

Lately, I'm thinking God's telling me that UCLA is not the way to go.

In other news, yesterday at the hospital with Mama was extremely stressful, I've been unusually wheezy the last two days, and my lower back is sore. I'm saying, I've had better days here, people.

On the good side, Scream Awards are on tonight.

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:23:55 GMT

Frustrated with my Statement of Purpose for my UCLA application. They want you to pretty much tell them the Extreme Home Makeover story of your life, how disadvantaged you were, racially, economically, how you devoted your entire life to charity and didn't eat for six months while doing it and also saved a baby from a burning building while people were telling you you would never amount to anything and UGH. It's not that there aren't students with disadvantages out there, but this is so clearly, "LOOK, people, look how cool we are accepted disadvantaged students in OUR school" and it's frustrating. And it's not like my parents have ever been able to pay for my college, but I also didn't grow up in a trailer with people named Mary Jean and Bubba, so that doesn't count. And sure, I'm a quarter Mexican, but I got snow white skin and I don't speak Spanish, so ultimately I'm just another white and whiny girl from a small town . . . which in itself does not count as a disadvantage, unfortunately.

Plus, I have nothing to give for a resume, not one that pertains to writing anyway. I'm a secretary with a good GPA. Awesome. There aren't 4 bazillion of those out there. Meanwhile, I'm scrambling for my transcripts to come in and my letters of recommendation to come through, and this is just ONE of the schools I'm apply to. Stupid early deadline. No one should put their deadline around the same time as midterms. It's rude.

In short, I am SO not in my happy place.

Oh. My. God.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:19:38 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33332436/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/?gt1=43001

Wow. Just . . . wow. People are fucked up and wrong.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:47:10 GMT

Finished one midterm paper, finished the intro for another, got another person to write me a letter of recommendation (only need one more), updated fanfiction, and did dishes.

I feel accomplished, yo.

Made of Lamesauce

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:22:01 GMT

I find out that Joss Whedon has co-written a horror movie---a horror movie that has something to do with people at a cabin the woods (for it is very cleverly called A Cabin In The Woods)---and it stars Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, AND Amy Acker . . .

. . . only to discover it's been pushed back till 2011 so the studio or whoever can fit it with 3D.

I despise 3D. I've jumped on board with Mek---the 3D thing needs to be over. Now.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:39 GMT

I just found out that there's fanfiction for THE BIBLE.

I don't even know what to do with myself now. How am I supposed to concentrate on a metaphysics midterm, when I could be writing a slash smut fic with Jesus and Judas? Or maybe a crossover fic where David is seriously injured, and secret lover Jonathan goes to Elrond of the elves to get a cure (and maybe is tempted into an illicit affair with naughty Legolas?)

The mind is sufficiently boggled.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:19:48 GMT

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
afraidofplaydoh goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Jesus.
brooklebee tricks you! You get a broken balloon.
faithfulcynic tricks you! You get an eraser.
kacilee gives you 14 light green peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
kroki_refur gives you 6 tan cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
pdragon76 gives you 7 brown strawberry-flavoured wafers.
socialmasochist gives you 14 milky white raspberry-flavoured wafers.
strangeandcharm gives you 18 softly glowing blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
afraidofplaydoh ends up with 59 pieces of candy, a broken balloon, and an eraser.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

My Masterpiece is Complete!

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:15:19 GMT

No, this is not a screenplay, novel, play, or any other productive use of my time.

Instead, I have finished The Epic Birthday/Christmas list two months in advance. When I say epic, I mean EPIC. The list is three pages long, including varying font types and additional end notes.

I feel so accomplished.

Of course, the font types don't show up here. But on the prettier, print-out version, they look very nice.

The EPIC Birthday/Christmas List

BIG ITEMS:

1.) Video Camera
2.) A Wii, Playstation 3, OR X-box 360

ZOMBIES:

1.) Night of the Living Dead (DVD-1968)
2.) The Re-Animator (DVD-1985)
3.) Dance of the Dead (DVD-2008)
4.) The Evil Dead (DVD-1981)
5.) Army of Darkness (DVD-1992)
6.) The Walking Dead, Book One (Graphic Novel)
7.) Teddy Scares: Rita Morris (Demented Teddy Bear)***
8.) Teddy Scares: Eli Wretch (Demented Teddy Bear)***
9.) Monster Island- David Wellington (Book)
10.) Any Other Awesome Zombie Stuff I Don’t Already Own

BOOKS/GRAPHIC NOVELS SANS ZOMBIES:

1.) Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas (Graphic Novel)
2.) Blankets-Craig Thompson (Graphic Novel)
3.) The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories-Tim Burton
4.) Dead In The West-Joe R. Lansdale***
5.) Lost Echoes-Joe R. Lansdale
6.) Savage Season-Joe R. Lansdale
7.) Batman: Cacophony-Kevin Smith (Graphic Novel)
8.) Dark Hollow-John Connolly
9.) Johannes Cabal the Necromancer-Jonathan L. Howard
10.) The Affinity Bridge- George Mann

HORROR MOVIES SANS ZOMBIES:

1.) Friday the 13th (1980)
2.) Black Christmas (1974)
3.) Feast (2005)
4.) Ginger Snaps (2000)
5.) Carrie (1976)

NON HORROR MOVIES:

1.) Watchmen, Director’s Cut (Director’s Cut, 2009)
2.) The Dark Knight (2008)
3.) Tin Man (Miniseries, 2007)
4.) The Secret Garden (1993)
5.) Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (2007)

TV ON DVD:

1.) Jericho, Season One
2.) Dark Angel, Season One
3.) Joan of Arcadia, Season One
4.) Burn Notice, Season One or Two
5.) The Mentalist, Season One
6.) Pushing Daisies, Season Two
7.) Robot Chicken, Season Three
8.) Robot Chicken: Star Wars, Episode Two
9.) Dexter, Season One
10.) X-Men, Volume Two (Marvel DVD Comic Book Collection)***

POP CULTURE PHILOSOPHY BOOKS:

1.) X-Men and Philosophy, edt. Irwin, Housel, and Wisnewski
2.) Watchmen and Philosophy, edt. White, Irwin
3.) Star Wars and Philosophy, edt. Decker, Eberl, Irwin
4.) Harry Potter and Philsophy, edt. Irwin, Baggett, Klein
5.) Battlestar Galactica and Philosphy, edt. Steiff, Tamplin

MUSIC:

1.) Muse- The Resistance
2.) Franz Ferdinand-Tonight
3.) The Clash- Any CD
4.) Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
5.) Aerosmith- O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits***

GIFT CERTIFICATES:

1.) Barnes and Nobles
2.) Copperfields
3.) Hot Topic
4.) Target
5.) Victoria’s Secret

MISCELLANEOUS:

1.) Cute socks
2.) Cool hats
3.) Cute Converse Sneakers (Size 8, PLEASE check with Mek)
4.) Steampunk Clothing (Shirts-Medium; Pants-Size 12)***
5.) Any irreverent religious item you think I might like (Ex: Mother Teresa’s Breath Spray, Jesus Action Figure, etc.)

MILK CHOCOLATE:

1.) Without nuts
2.) Without toffee
3.) Without fruit flavoring
4.) Without mint
5.) Without coconut

A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES:

1.) If you see a symbol like this: *** after an item, that means this item is probably best found on amazon.com. Do not fear amazon, people! It’s a wonderful place to find things. Pretty much everything on this list can be found on amazon.com

2.) I do not want any earrings. Please, please do not get me any.

3.) I do not want any bracelets. The only possible exception are those eternity bracelets (also called slave bracelet, apparently) which connect bracelet to ring. Otherwise, don’t bother.

4.) Please, from the depths of MY SOUL, do NOT get me any remakes or sequels of the movies I asked for. If you cannot find the original Friday the 13th, for the love of GOD, do not get me the remake, even if it does have Jared Padalecki in it. Likewise, I do not wish to own Jason Goes To Hell. There are 67 things on this list. I have faith that you can find one of them without having to resort to awful substitutions.

Laughing My Ass Off

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:42:00 GMT

My favorite current activity is reading Psych fanfiction. I'm completely obsessed. I just read this story where someone suggests that Shawn (main character for all you non-Psych fans) is getting a bit tubby, and Shawn says, "I'll have you know that a lot of people find my man-pillow sexy!"

Man-pillow. I'm going to giggle all night thinking about that.

Also, in other news: Zombieland ROCKED!!!

Adding On To The What Makes Me Happy List

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:30:20 GMT

While researching for my Epic Birthday and Christmas list, I found a huge list of zombie movies, and some of them have just the most ridiculous names. Here are some of my favorites:

1.) Zombie Jesus!
2.) Blood and Guts: The Return of the 80's Horror Movie/Stupid Teenagers Must Die!
3.) Die You Zombie Bastards!
4.) Space Zombie Bingo
5.) I Was A Zombie For The FBI
6.) Dr. Satan Versus Black Magic
7.) The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
8.) Earth Dies Screaming (I don't know; I just liked this one.)

This makes up for the fact that all the pizzas that CCD got was completely and utterly lame.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:58:25 GMT

Waking up to find a lit mag rejection in your email doesn't make the best "morning."

I will now jump on the bandwagon.

"Things That Make Me Happy"

1.) Getting pizza tonight at work.
2.) Seeing Zombieland tomorrow
3.) Got a coworker to pick up a shift I needed off.
4.) Working on my Epic Birthday/Christmas List
5.) Listening to my beautiful ipod. God bless you Nine Inch Nails.

In Search of Ye Book Advice

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:20:56 GMT

So, I just finished reading Philip K. Dick's Valis and if you've never read the book, I don't have the slightest idea of how to describe it to you, except that I feel like I've spent the last two weeks performing self-trepanation via spork.
I need easy reads.

I want some good books that are fun, quick reads. Horror is good. Murder mysteries are good, although I prefer ones that aren't solely romance novels in disguise. Anything's good, actually, as long as it's a quick read that I can recover with. I've been having a serious reading block the last couple months, and I just don't think the schizophrenic search for God helped any. Seriously, I think I only understood half of that damn book.

Please, recommend me things. Anything. Can't let Mek win the Book War now.

Ch-ch-ch-chia!!!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:39:05 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkjxbcULvgc

This is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen in my entire life. And it's not even supposed to be funny.

Please. I beg you. Go watch this sixty second commercial. My mind is sufficiently blown.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:52:25 GMT

I am at home, writing at you lovely people, instead of at school today because I overslept. Damn. First class missed. Didn't even make it to October.

Senioritis is killing me here.

In other news, I've taken a break from my Supernatural fanfic writing . . . I don't know, I just haven't been into reading or writing it as much lately . . . and written a Mentalist fic, a Veronica Mars drabble, and a Psych fic. And here's what amuses me: I've actually gotten more reviews on the 100 word drabble from a show that got cancelled, what? Five years ago? Than I have on the Mentalist fic, which is still currenly on air. Oh well.

It was bad to miss school, of course, but I gotta say, it was nice to sleep in, (1) cause it was hard to sleep last night, and (2) cause I have to work later tonight.

AHHH. Allergy attack now. Must leave. Very busy sneezing. Bah.

Wow. Just wow.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:51:29 GMT

I was interested in seeing "Jennifer's Body" and I realized I hadn't heard much since it came out, so I decided to look up some reviews. So far, what I've seen is not good. Which doesn't mean I won't see the movie, just that I might not see it in theatre because I've got a few other things I'd rather see more. However.

Someone who absolutely detested the movie on imdb wrote this: "The actress who played Mikaela, the refreshing beauty with a brain in both TRANSFORMERS movies. And, yet, here, she played a (painfully) typical queen high school b***h!"

And wow, I didn't see Transformers 2, so for all I know, she became super awesome and intelligent and skilled and, oh, I don't know, acted in the sequel, but Megan Fox as the REFRESHING BEAUTY WITH A BRAIN? Are you KIDDING me? Wow. I mean, I'm using this as proof that we need better female characters in just about everything there is.

I'm not saying there aren't any good female roles anywhere, but I see these awful characters getting praise and it drives me nuts. Every interview I see of Lost talks about Kate as this strong female heroine, and I just gag everytime I watch it. You want to talk strong women? Let's talk SUN. Because that woman can act, and that woman I can buy as both gentle and a bad ass. Kate? Whines. A lot. And it gets irritating.

When I become rich and famous, I'm going to write amazing female characters. And then maybe I'll even do something wacky, like cast good actresses to play them.